单词 | mantel |
释义 | manteln. 1. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > engine of war > [noun] > movable shed sow1297 mantel1357 snail1408 vinet1408 whelk1408 circlec1440 barbed-cat1489 mantle1489 mantlet1524 vine1565 tortoise1569 sow-guard1582 penthouse1600 penticle1600 target-roof1601 vinea1601 fence-roof1609 testudo1609 cat-house1614 vineyard1650 tortoiseshell1726 manta1829 cat1833 ram-house1850 tortoise-roof1855 bear1865 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > hearth or fireplace > beam over mantel1357 balk1432 manteltree1451 mantry1530 clavel1602 chimney-bar1833 1357 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1967) 102 Mantelston [provided for a fireplace]. 1500 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 64 Yn the sames bedes owte off the mantell. 1519 in W. L. Nash Churchwardens' Acct. Bk. St. Giles, Reading (1881) 6 For ijo mantells for ijo chymneys ijs. viijd. 1561 in G. Roberts Social Hist. Southern Counties Eng. (1856) 359 It was commanded to John Somer to amend his mantalle, payne of v shillings. 1675 St. Paul's Cathedral Contract Bk. 21 Aug. in Wren Soc. (1939) 16 10 Dores & Dorecases, Lyntolling, Mantles, Tassells, & Ceiling Joysts. 1734 Builder's Dict. II Mantle..is the lower Part of the Chimney, or that Part laid across the Jambs. 1774 Act 14 Geo. III c. 78 §45 The Back of every Chimney to be built..at least thirteen Inches thick from the Hearth, to the Height of twelve Inches above the Mantle. 1824 T. Tredgold Princ. Warming & Ventilating Public Buildings (ed. 2) 236 A high mantle has some advantage in producing a more effectual ventilation. b. An ornamental structure of wood, marble, etc., above and around a fireplace; the manteltree of a fireplace together with its supports. Cf. mantelpiece n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > wallcovering > [noun] > ornamental chimney-piece parel1528 mantel1532 chimneya1552 manteltree1572 mantelpiece1660 chimney-piece1680 mantelling1861 1532 in J. W. Bayley Hist. & Antiq. Tower of London (1821) I. App. p. xxxi Firste, a new worke wrought in the kynges dynyng chambre, a mantell of waynscot wrought wt antyk sett over the chymney there. 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 22 The Chimney-mantles ought to be all of Stone or Marble. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xvii. 166 Every thing is stone, and stone of the heaviest—floors, stairways, mantels, benches—every thing. 1890 H. Frederic Lawton Girl vi. 41 The massive carved side-board and the ponderous mantel. a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) ix. 365 The mantel was mottled white marble, and its shelf bore the usual bronze and gilt clock. 1991 Canad. House & Home Dec. 52 (caption) Simple sisal..on the floors, a sandstone mantel on the fireplace. c. A shelf formed by the projecting surface of a mantelpiece; = mantelshelf n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > stand > [noun] > shelf > specific type manteltree1572 bookshelf1648 chimney-mantle1663 chimney-piece1680 mantel1742 mantelpiece1767 brace1806 mantelshelf1828 mantel-place1842 mantelboard?1881 sub-shelf1889 rick1901 fireboard1907 brace-piece- bracket-shelf- 1742 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 42 75 When it is in the Sun in Summer, and upon the Mantle of the Chimney in Winter..it becomes perfect Soap in Four or Five Days. 1849 H. Melville Redburn xlvi. 297 ‘I mean to sit up with a decanter!—let me see’—looking at the ormolu clock on the mantel—‘it's only two hours to morning.’ 1865 A. D. Whitney Gayworthys 177 Rebecca set the light upon the mantel, and took her to the bedside. 1904 H. F. Day Kin o' Ktaadn 193 Old Tay..pudges along to the tin box on the mantel. 1929 T. Wolfe Look homeward, Angel (1930) xxii. 324 Over the screened hearth, on a low mantel, there was a Kewpie doll, sashed with pink ribbon. 1987 J. Rule Memory Board v. 78 Above the mantle a painting by Gordon Smith..seemed full of an energy to break free. 2. Mountaineering and Rock Climbing. A movement for climbing on to a flat, narrow ledge of rock. Cf. mantelshelf n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > [noun] > actions glissading1832 rock climb1861 glissade1862 traversea1877 step cutting1884 hand traverse1897 conquest1902 bouldering1920 lay-back1925 soloing1929 hand-jamming1937 safing1937 rappelling1938 leading through1945 pendulum1945 free-climbing1946 laybacking1955 pendule1957 finger jam1959 jumar1966 jam1967 prusiking1968 jumaring1971 free solo1977 redpoint1986 mantel1987 crimping1990 1987 Climber Mar. 23/1 Some steep pulls and something perilously close to a full-frontal pull-up, and just after something even closer to a mantel. 1988 High July 24/1 I completed the mantle on to the block from the layback in the corner above the overhang. Compounds C1. General attributive. mantel glass n. ΚΠ 1836 Lincoln, Rutland, & Stamford Mercury 18 Mar. (advt.) A very large assortment of excellent household furniture..comprising..superior cabinet 6-octave piano-forte, in handsome rosewood case, by Broadwood, immensely large mantel glass in gilt foliage frame, [etc.] 1867 R. H. Davis in Galaxy 15 Mar. 583 She caught sight of her face in the bleared mantel glass, and turned sharply away to hide it. 1991 Jrnl. Design Hist. 4 237/2 This was accompanied by a walnut mantle glass, fender, fire-irons and a bordered carpet. ΚΠ 1796 N.Y. Daily Advertiser 29 Nov. 3/4 Looking Glasses... A few pair handsome Cut Glass table and mantel Lustres. 1819 Times 6 Jan. 4/5 Neat and modern household furniture, comprising bedsteads and hangings..elegant glasses, mantle lustres, lady's work-table. 1821 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 18 Aug. 2/2 (advt.) Gardiner, Veron & Co. have on hand, and offer at the lowest prices..Mantle Lustres, Looking Glasses, rich Cut Glass, French and English China Tea Sets, &c. and a very general supply of Kitchen Furniture. mantel mirror n. ΚΠ 1865 H. B. Stowe House & Home Papers 86 Now come the great mantel mirrors for four hundred [dollars] more. 1997 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) 25 Sept. 16 A mantel mirror leaned against the wall rather than hung can bounce sunlight toward the ceiling, brightening the room. mantel ornament n. ΚΠ 1829 G. Jones Sketches Naval Life I. 83 The finer Nautilus, (Argonauta or Argo,) a beautiful thing, is also found here. The natives work the smaller shells into handsome mantle ornaments. 1896 A. R. White Youth's Educator xii. 146 There are so many beautiful articles which can be fittingly sent as wedding gifts... Among them are pictures, albums, bric-a-brac, vases, clocks, mantel ornaments. 1920 E. Wharton Age of Innocence vii. 49 The..Madison Avenue drawing-room, with the pale brocaded armchairs so obviously uncovered for the occasion, and the gauze still veiling the ormolu mantel ornaments. 1998 Independent 10 Aug. 5 Down the road..is another mysterious piece of the provincial economy: a shop that sells mantel ornaments: little models of country cottages; china dolphin families all cuddling together; hand-carved wooden wizards. ΚΠ 1357Mantelston [see sense 1a]. C2. mantel clock n. a clock designed to sit on a mantelpiece. ΚΠ 1846 Knickerbocker 27 262 We have been sitting to-night for a full hour, by the mantle-clock of our goodly sanctum. 1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 193 It occasionally happens in mantel clocks that..the pendulum is just too long for the case. 1963 Times 18 May 6/5 Fabre paid £1,200 for a bronze and ormolu elephant mantel clock, also in the Caffieri manner. 1989 Antique Collecting Mar. 5/2 As with longcase clocks, bracket and mantel clocks have responded in some measure to the increasing general demand for period furnishings. mantel-place n. regional (chiefly U.S. southern) = mantelpiece n. ΚΠ 1842 W. G. Simms Last Wager in Gift 1843 (Philadelphia) 286 You have a very singular ornament for your mantle-place. 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 504 Mantle-place is the curious form which the English mantle-piece has assumed in some parts of the South. 1966 R. F. Dakin Dial. Vocab. Ohio River Valley II. 38 The wooden or stone shelf or ledge above a fireplace...Mantel place and simple board are each attested once. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mantelv. Mountaineering and Rock Climbing. intransitive. = mantelshelf v. ΚΠ 1987 Climber Mar. 23/1 Now Coco can pull-up and mantel as well as I. 1990 Rock & Ice Mar. 62/2 Frantically he tried to mantle onto the smooth slab. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1357v.1987 |
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