单词 | mud wall |
释义 | mud walln. 1. A wall made of earth or clay, or with clay as a substitute for mortar; †the material forming such a wall (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > wall > types of mud walla1395 ground-wall1712 retaining wall1771 cob wall1790 wing-wall1791 honeycomb wall1850 toe wall1934 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > earth > [noun] > mud used for building mud wall1578 kachcha1834 a1395 in Archaeologia (1832) 24 313 Pro factura ij perticatarum muri ex parte occidentale gardini vocata mudwall. c1445 Plea & Mem. Rolls London Guildhall sig. A 71.3b They seyen that thei fynde there a Coyne of a wall of ston..& a mudwall strecchyng in length westward. 1464 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 373 For makyng of the modde walle. 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 52 The houses are great, made of lime stone, & bricke: others there are made of mood wal, and rafters. 1635 J. Jones Adrasta i. i. 3 And by such mudwall stayres doe often rise. 1679 T. Kirke Mod. Acct. Scotl. 10 The Houses of the Commonalty are very mean, Mud-wall and Thatch the best. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. xix. 358 Earthly Minds, like Mud-Walls, resist the strongest Batteries. c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 169 Little hutts and hovels the poor Live in Like Barnes..daub'd with mud-wall. a1771 R. Wood Ess. Homer (1775) 242 The mud walls of a Turkish cottage. 1789 Trans. Soc. Arts 7 34 Two parts old cobb (alias mud-wall). 1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §159 Mode of building the Mud Walls of Cottages in Cambridgeshire. 1878 T. Hardy Return of Native I. i. viii. 164 Only a few inches of mudwall kept him and his family from being gipsies themselves. 1891 R. W. Murray S. Afr. 194 A kraal is..a collection of huts surrounded by mud walls or palisading. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 67/1 The town was surrounded by a mud wall, pierced by six gates, and was further protected by a ditch 5 ft. deep. 1973 V. C. Ike Potter's Wheel (1974) iii. 22 Leaving the early weeks of the new year free for cutting the special grass for roofing the mud walls round the compound. 1990 Country Homes June 92 An empty sloping lawn stretched up to the remains of a thatched mud wall. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > [noun] lichamc888 bodyeOE earthOE lichOE bone houseOE dustc1000 fleshOE utter mana1050 bonesOE bodiȝlichc1175 bouka1225 bellyc1275 slimec1315 corpsec1325 vesselc1360 tabernaclec1374 carrion1377 corsec1386 personc1390 claya1400 carcass1406 lump of claya1425 sensuality?a1425 corpusc1440 God's imagea1450 bulka1475 natural body1526 outward man1526 quarrons1567 blood bulk1570 skinfula1592 flesh-rind1593 clod1595 anatomy1597 veil1598 microcosm1601 machine1604 outwall1608 lay part1609 machina1612 cabinet1614 automaton1644 case1655 mud wall1662 structure1671 soul case1683 incarnation1745 personality1748 personage1785 man1830 embodiment1850 flesh-stuff1855 corporeity1865 chassis1930 soma1958 1662 Bp. E. Hopkins Funeral Serm. (1685) 78 There stand nothing between us and our eternal state, but this thin mud-wall of our bodies. 1671 A. Seller Devout Communicant 174 Our mud-wall of flesh made spiritual and transparent. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xii. l. 680 Castell was thar nayn Bot mudwall werk withoutyn lym or stayn. 1490 in J. Robertson & C. Innes Munimenta Univ. Glasguensis (1854) II. 256 For the makyn of the mudwal dyk. 1543 tr. Statutes from Henry III. to Henry VIII. Table sig. Avi/2 Mud wall makers. 1674 in P. H. Brown Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1911) 3rd Ser. IV. 278 A mudwall rowme..built upon his owne coast. 1785 W. Cowper Wks. (1837) XV. 159 The mud-wall cottages of our poor at Olney. 1844 J. Gregg Commerce of Prairies I. 109 [San Miguel, New Mexico] consists of irregular clusters of mud-wall huts. 1989 San Diego Oct. 18/3 Works include stone or wooden floor sculptures and mud wall drawings. 1991 R. Waldrop tr. A. Borer Rimbaud in Abyssinia iii. 55 There is again the countryside and its islands of mud-wall toukouls with their straw roofs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1395 |
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