单词 | knitch |
释义 | knitchn. Now dialect. A bundle (of wood, hay, corn, etc.) tied together; a sheaf or faggot. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > bundle sheafc725 handfulOE truss12.. knitch13.. binding1388 bundle1398 faggot1447 bond1483 flaggat1487 bend-fulc1500 litch1538 thrave1606 fascicle1622 fawda1642 nitch1726 fascine1793 fasciculus1816 α. β. 1398 [see α. ]. 1725 London Gaz. No. 6447/4 Taking Straws out of a Nitch of Straw.1823 Examiner 574/1 He was seen to go towards the thicket, for the purpose..of getting a nitch of fern.1882 Western Morning News 25 Nov. 4/2 Wanted, 200 Nitches of well-made good reed, for thatching.1888 Edinb. Rev. July 129 Nitch is a faggot of wood which a hedger has..a right to carry away at night.c950 in J. Stevenson Rituale Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis (1840) 59 From synna usra gicnyccum [L. a peccatorum nostrorum nexibus]. c950 in J. Stevenson Rituale Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis (1840) 66 Deaðes gicnyccum [L. mortis nexibus].] 13.. XI Pains of Hell 77 in Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. 253 Ligate per fasciculos..Byndeþ hem in knucchen [MS. knucchenus]. ?13.. Coer de L. 2985 The ffootmen kast in knohches of hay,..And ffylde the dyke fful upryghte. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xiii. 30 Gedre ȝee to gedre dernels,..and byndeth hem to gidre in knytchis, or smale bundelis. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS.) xvii. xcvii [Flax] bounde in knytches [1535 nytches] and bondeles. 1481 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 320 xvj. knitche de strey lates. 1519 Churchwardens' Accts. Stratton in Archaeologia 46 207 Paid for strow v knochys jd. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Knytche or bownche of woode, fascis. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 203 Himselfe tooke out of the sheafe or knitch the darts..one by one. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. vii. 94 If I dared break a hedge for a knitch o' wood, they'd put me in prison. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.13.. |
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