单词 | pendle |
释义 | pendlen.1 Now chiefly Scottish. a. Scottish. A hanging or valance for an altar; an altar-cloth. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > cloths, carpets, cushions > cloth (general) > altar cloth > [noun] > at front hatchOE frontal1381 pall?a1475 antepend1501 pendle1501 stole1513 suffront1516 altar cloth1522 front1533 altar front1539 antependium1594 fronton1749 altar frontal1836 altar facing1856 1501 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 65 For xij elne iij quarteris wellus to be offreis and crucis to the redestand and to the pendale and antependale of the altair. 1512 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 358 For ane chessable with orphis, ane albe amyt, altar towellis, ane pendele to the altar,..v li. viij s. ix d. b. Any of various kinds of hanging ornament; spec. an earring, an ear-drop. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > pendant ornaments pendantc1400 tasselc1400 tarsel1459 pend1488 pendace1488 drop1502 pendle1567 tag1570 tasse1570 tasselet1577 lustre1682 fiocco1694 dewdrop1880 1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. f. 20 The viewe of sondrye skutchions and pendels of our armes. 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 69 Heads and Pendills foure inches Diameter, at four pence a head, six inches Diameter six pence a head. ?a1670 in W. Hunter Biggar & House of Fleming (1862) xxvii. 342 The lady gaed up the Parliament Stairs, Wi' pendles in her lug sae bonnie. 1710 T. Ruddiman in G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneis (new ed.) Gloss. at Pendes Pendants..we call them pendles. 1829 R. Chambers Sc. Songs II. 378 She's got pendles in her lugs. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > high position > overhanging > [noun] > that which overhangs eavesa1382 overhanging1548 pendle1567 overshut1630 overlet1656 propensity1755 lean-overa1885 1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. f. 112v He was lodged in a lowe chamber, joyned as a pendle to thuttermost corner of the house. 1581 T. Styward Pathwaie to Martiall Discipline ii. 125 Some large riuer, or some deepe dale, hauing high pendles ouer it, either cast there by Art, or fortified by nature. 1663 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1881) VII. 17 Ordered that noe Jettie nor pendill yt shall be erected but shall be full 8 foot in height from the ground. 1701 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston VIII. 11 Ordered, That no person shall erect or set up any Pentice, jetty, or Pendal over any of the streets, lanes, or highwayes of this town. 3. British regional. A pendulum. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > pendulum clock > pendulum pendule1660 pendulum1660 simple pendulum1673 bob-pendulum1685 swing1696 quicksilver pendulum1726 pendle1741 gridiron pendulum1751 mercurial pendulum1786 gridiron1793 wanrest1794 seconds pendulum1795 conical pendulum1813 ticker1821 noddy1844 1741 in R. Renwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1911) VI. 99 £4 7s. 7d. sterling for iron cranks, bellheads, axell, chain clasps, sucker shank, screw steeples and nails to the pendelshank. 1742 Church Acct. in C. Wordsworth Rutland Words (1891) (at cited word) Allowed [the carpenter] fox for cutting way for the pendle. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Pendil, the pendulum of a clock. 1930 in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. 85/1 Fa stoppit the pendle o' the wag-at-the-wa' knock? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pendlen.2 English regional (south midlands) and Scottish. Any of various kinds or beds of stone occurring in quarries. Also in: pendle rock, pendle stone. Sc. National Dict. (1968) records the word as still in use in Kirkcudbrightshire in 1965. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > stratum or bed > bed of stone or sand pendle1706 picking-bed1749 sand1849 1706 Ld. Fitzwilliam Let. 11 Apr. in Ld. Fitzwilliam & F. Guybon Corr. (1990) 199 He thinks pendell stone may be the best to turne the arch with. 1706 J. Catlin Let. 8 May in Corr. Guybon 203 The masons liketh the pendalls very well for endureing the watter but they take more lime being thiner then free stone and will be rougher work. a1808 in T. Batchelor Gen. View Agric. Bedford iv. 8 Under which is a small stone, short, thick, and hard, called the pendle rock. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 103 Pendle-stone, a name given by quarry-men to the upper course in a stone-pit, whether of the upper or lower Oolite or Fuller's earth. 1890 Brechin Advertiser 29 Apr. An' me wis never ony farer nir the pentil steen o' the Redhead a' my days. 1900 Stone Trade Jrnl. Aug. The upper eight or ten feet of loose stuff [are] cleared away, thus ‘ridding’ the ground for the ‘pendal’, as the slates are called. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11501n.21706 |
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