单词 | keelivine |
释义 | keelivinekeelie vinen. Scottish and northern dialect. a. A black-lead pencil, or more generally, any coloured pencil enclosed in wood (as a red keelie-vine); also, in some places, black-lead, plumbago. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > writing instrument > [noun] > pencil > lead pencil lead-pencil1688 keelivine1808 wad-pencil1825 c1720 W. Mitchel in Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (1880) III. 11/1 If God's Providence were not wonderful, I would long since been crying Kile vine, and Kilie vert, considering I began upon a crown, and a poor trade.] 1808–18 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Keelivine, a black-lead pencil. 1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 509 Wi' the verra mere, naked unassisted keelavine (that day fortunately it was a red ane,) I caught the character o' the apparition. 1884 Scot. Ch. Rev. I. 5 His appliances as yet are a keelyvine and a Balaam-box. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Keely-vine, a pencil, originally a pencil made from keel, but applied generally to ‘vines’ or pencils. 1899 Cumbld. Gloss. Calavine, a black-lead pencil. b. attributive, as keelivine pen, a pencil. ΚΠ 1782 J. Sinclair Observ. Sc. Dial. 120 Black-lead is called killow, or collow, in Cumberland; and a guillivine~pen, is probably a corruption of a fine killow pencil. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. ix. 187 Put up your pocket-book and your keelyvine pen. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 26 The Duke of Argile..wrote your name down with a kylevine pen in a leathern book. 1833 Fraser's Mag. Oct. 398 In a hole he had..jock-to-legs, keelavine pens. Derivatives ˈkeelivined adj. marked with pencil. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > [adjective] > with pencil keelivined1837 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott IV. vi. 202 [Quoting Scott, 1818] It had been well known that the keelavined egg must be a soft one for the Sherra. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1782 |
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