单词 | oak tree |
释义 | oak treen. a. Any tree of the genus Quercus; = oak n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > [noun] > oak as timber tree oakeOE oak treeOE mountain oak1609 white oak1610 Spanish oak1716 iron oak1724 post oak1775 Slavonian1809 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > oak and allies > [noun] > oak-tree oakeOE oak treeOE green oak1660 OE Wife's Lament 28 Heht mec mon wunian on wuda bearwe, under actreo in þam eorðscræfe. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 175b/b (MED) Medicinez conforting þat bene competent in þe ende ar after fomentacioun with wyne salted of decoccioun of rose, of absinthij, of white mosse of oke treez. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 363 Oke tre, Quercus, ylex. 1462 Extracts Rec. in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 148 The sayd Die Bulle sale gef a aktre tyll be a Summer tyl the kyll. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) 69 iv. viii. 69 The ancyant aik tre, With hys byg schank. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 249/1 Oke tree, chesne. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. i. D Ashamed of the oketrees wherein ye haue so delited. 1609 J. Skene tr. Forest Laws in Regiam Majestatem c. 12. 12 Gif the forestar finds anie man..heueand dune ane aik trie. 1623 in J. Stuart Extracts Presbytery Bk. Strathbogie (1843) 12 His bairn..being stif as an aik tree, and unable to move. 1679 Connecticut Rec. III. 27 We began [the line]..at an oak tree by the River side. 1703 T. Baker Tunbridge-walks 41 These Kentish-Folks, value themselves so much upon their Strength, and because they carry'd a few Boughs against William the Conquerour; they talk of bearing Oak-Trees. 1767 Bartram's Jrnl. 5 in W. Stork Acct. E. Florida (ed. 2) Many live oak-trees grew upon it. 1791 Philos. Trans. 1790 (Royal Soc.) 80 293 Soon afterwards the lightening struck an oak tree. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 112 The oak tree gnarl'd and notch'd. 1841 T. Carlyle in R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) Pref. p. xiii The smallest living acorn is fit to be the parent of oaktrees without end. 1948 E. N. Wentworth America's Sheep Trails ix. 154/2 The first road in the county was blazed by dragging the top of an oaktree twelve miles, southwestward from Spring Prairie to Delavan. 1971 Black Scholar Apr. 47/2 Our job is to clear out 10 miles of oak trees, manzanita shrubs and sagebrush on both sides of the highway. 2001 Two Worlds Apr. 23/1 Oak trees were once used to mark village boundaries. b. Chiefly Australian. Any of various other trees resembling oaks or providing timber resembling oak (cf. oak n. 5); esp. a casuarina tree (cf. oak n. 5b). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > casuarinas club-wood1777 oak tree1789 toa1792 casuarina1806 tree horsetail1884 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > other non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] andrachne1601 genip1666 allspice1686 allspice tree1691 Morinda1754 garcinia1760 pea tree1766 canarium1776 Pemphis1777 oak tree1789 buddleia1791 ixora1816 Canary wood1820 persea1823 naio1826 plume nutmeg1846 partridge pea1852 Leichhardt-tree1860 hardwood1864 scrubwood1874 tree lily1891 pagoda tree1940 schefflera1954 1789 J. Hunter Hist. Jrnl. Trans. Port Jackson (1793) 357 Pines, and oak-trees of the largest size were blown down every instant. 1829 R. Mude Picture of Austral. 136 To the casuarina, though it has no resemblance whatever to any species of oak, the colonists give the name of oak tree. 1875 T. Laslett Timber & Timber Trees xxiii. 145 The African Oak tree, the African Teak, or Mahogany timber of commerce..is probably the Swietenia Senegalensis. 1969 Ecology 50 329/1 This site was under a small black oak tree (Casuarina cristata) which was about 3 m high. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1883 D. B. W. Sladen Austral. Lyrics 40 I have watched the merry dormice at play By their holes in oaktree roots. 1888 R. L. Stevenson Black Arrow iii. iv. 172 The heart misgave her in her oak-tree ribs [sc. of a ship]. 1912 Man 12 16 The evidence, too, that Thor was the oak-tree-god is very slender. C2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [noun] > other clays red clayc1475 urry1669 blae1724 cat-dirt1747 iron clay1750 till1762 mulatto clay1788 oak-tree clay1794 porcelain jasper1794 porcellanite1794 Karoo ground1836 plinthite1836 papa1851 Bradford clay1858 Indianaite1868 sinopite1868 hydrobiotite1881 pampas-clay1885 byon1892 potato clay1896 bentonite1898 quick clay1901 gumbotil1916 1794 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. 63 There are three kinds of land, on which chalk is used with success in the district... 3dly. On the strong, oak-tree clay, or rather loam, in the valley at Mere, Sedgehill, and Semley. 1816 W. Smith Strata Identified 11 The Oak-tree Clay also may be mistaken or confounded with the Brick earth, which in several parts produces good oak. 1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 70 The Sussex oaks are famed for many excellent qualities. They grow in a soil which, from their abundance and superior growth in the same, is called oak-tree clay. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. VI. 631/1 Mr Smith and other Geologists at one time referred the interior sandstones to the ‘iron sand’, and the Weald clay to one of two beds, confused under the title of oak-tree clays. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE |
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