单词 | lockchester |
释义 | lockchestern. Now historical and rare (English regional (Oxfordshire) in later use). A woodlouse. Cf. lugdor n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Arthostraca > order Isopoda > family Oniscidae or genus Oniscus lockchestera1400 sow14.. lugdora1425 louk?a1450 lockchestc1450 cheslip1530 palmer1538 chestworm1544 Robin Goodfellow's louse1552 monk's peason1558 cheslock1574 porcelet1578 swine louse1579 hog-louse1580 multiped1601 kitchen-bob1610 woodlouse1611 loop1612 millipede1612 timber-sow1626 cheeselog1657 sow-louse1658 thurse-louse1658 onisc1661 monkey pea1682 slater1684 slatter1739 sow-bug1750 Oniscus1806 pig louse1819 hob-thrush1828 land-slater1863 pig's louse1888 wall-louse1899 oniscoid1909 chucky-pig1946 a1400 MS Corpus Cambr. 388 in D. A. Trotter Multilingualism in Later Medieval Brit. (2000) 140 Accipe viperam anglice ‘lokechestre’ qui cum multis pedibus vadit. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 310 Locchester, wyrm. ?a1475 Promptorium Parvulorum (Winch.) (1908) 272 (MED) Lukchester, worm, supra in lochester. ?a1500 in J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words (1852) 769 (MED) For the stone, take socchetres [read locchestres], that is, a worme with many feete that ben under stones on walles, that wollen whan they be touchid make hemself rounde. 1694 W. Atkins Disc. Gout 121 Take of those things commonly called Hog-Lice, or as some call, Lock-chesers, because they role round up in your Hand. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II. at Lockchest A gardener in his employ [in Oxfordshire] used to call the wood-louse lockchester. 1857 T. Wright On Hist. Eng. Lang. 17 My friend, Mr. Halliwell, walking in a garden in Oxfordshire, accidentally overheard the gardener talking about lockchesters, and immediately asking him what these were, received for answer that they were woodlice. 1904 A. S. Palmer Folk & their Word-lore iii. 53 This old word, long survived in Oxfordshire in the form of lockchester and lockchest, as a dialect name of the wood-louse. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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