单词 | mussel scalp |
释义 | mussel scalpn. Chiefly Scottish. = mussel bed n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Mytilidae > member of (mussel) > mussel bed mussel beda1450 mussel scalp1496 scalp?15.. mussel bank1634 lay1902 1496 Forres Charter MS Cum omnibus piscibus et piscationibus musculis et le mussil skawpis. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Muskleskalp. 1587 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1882) IV. 488 To caus brek the swame of the mvssill scalp in the heavin of Leyth. 1629 in J. M. Thomson Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1894) VIII. 484/2 The ferry-cobill aque de Findorne, cum lie mussilskape. a1650 D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1845) VII. 573 The ship runneth aground..upon the musselscape. 1663 in C. D. Bentinck Dornoch Cathedral & Parish (1926) 241 Mussel scape. a1828 T. Bewick Mem. (1975) xxv. 210 In my Brothers colliery..were found..perfect muscles, embedded in Iron stone–in appearance they differed not from those newly taken from a Muscle scaupe. 1879 H. Stevenson in R. Lubbock Fauna Norfolk Mem. 15 The sandy flats and mussel-scalps of that portion of the coast. 1896 J. H. Crawford Wild Life Scotl. 271 The punt lingered opposite the mud flats, or mussel-scaups exposed by the tide. 1978 A. Fenton Northern Isles lxviii. 598 This need for bait explains the importance of the mussel scalps, such as the three within Bressay Sound. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1496 |
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