单词 | lissen |
释义 | lissenn. dialect. 1. A cleft or seam dividing the strata of a rock. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > thin layer > [noun] > separating strata seam1592 lissena1641 parting1708 stripe1799 slick1883 seamlet1891 a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1885) III. 175 A strange stone..wherein is noe chinke, cracke, chopp, or Lisne at all. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. vii. 192 In the Lisne of a Rock at Kingscote in Glocestershire, I found at least a Bushel of Petrified Cockles. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 58 We have another fine Earth..found frequently in the lissoms or seams of the Rocks. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Lissen, a cleft in a rock. Glouc. 1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester Lissen, a cleft in a rock; the parting of stone in a quarry. 2. A layer or stratum; †a support for a beehive. ΚΠ 1790 Trans. Soc. Arts 8 126 (Let. fr. Faringdon, Berks.) Two [hives]..that I was obliged to raise on lissoms nine inches high. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. (at cited word) ‘In burnin' lime we putten first a lissom o' coal, an' then a lissom o' lime-stwun’. 3. A strand of rope; ‘one of the rows of straw plait in a bonnet’ (Devon 1837 in Eng. Dial. Dict.). ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Lissens, the ultimate strands of a rope. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Lissom, the strand of a rope; each lissom may be composed of several yarns. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.a1641 |
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