单词 | penistone |
释义 | penistonen. 1. A kind of coarse woollen cloth used for garments, linings, etc.; a (piece of) cloth of this kind. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > coarse or rough russeta1300 cogware1389 molton1545 forest-white1551 penistone1551 pinwhite1604 duroy1619 duffel1649 long ell1706 duffel cloth1787 flushing1812 bull's wool1850 1551–2 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI c. 6 §1 Clothes commonlye called Pennystones or Forest Whites..shall conteyne in lengthe beinge wett betwixt twelve and thirtene yardes. 1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health i. f. 21 A Bagge..of whyte Woollen cloth (whether the same be Pennystone or Karsie). 1616 in Rep. Comm. Inq. Charities (1834) XXIX. 731 40s. to be laid out in red peniston for four petticoats. 1686 S. Sewall Let.-bk. I. 31 I received yours per Mr. Clark with the cottons and penistons and ½ doz. books. 1741 in New Jersey Archives XII. 102 He had on..a brown Kersey Wastecoat lined with red Peniston. 1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Sturbridge (Camb.) Abundance of cloths,..kerseys, cottons, penistons, and fustians, are brought to it from Yorkshire and Lancashire. 1893 Cent. Mag. Dec. 258/1 For the women there were a skirt and waistcoat of penistone, a blue apron, a linen smock, two linen caps, shoes and stockings, and three barrel of Indian corn. 1938 Geogr. Jrnl. 91 343 Mr. Beaver's reference to pennistones is most interesting. Penistone is an old parish at the head of the Don valley. 1989 D. H. Fischer Albion's Seed 547 One variety, called penistone, was a coarse woolen fabric named after a village in Yorkshire. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > sandstone > others firestone1399 hassock1461 red stone1602 penistone1688 bluestone1709 gingerbread1714 brownstone1780 molasse1794 Old Red Sandstone1805 chip sand1808 fox-bench1816 New Red Sandstone1818 grey band1824 arkose1839 cankstone1845 St. Bees Sandstone1865 pietra serena1873 Ham Hill stone1889 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 111/1 Rough Stone, or Penny Stone..are rough cut out of the Quarry. CompoundsΚΠ 1551 in R. H. Tawney & E. Power Tudor Econ. Documents (1924) II. 192 Penyston whytes were then solde at xvs...the pece. 1592–3 in G. P. McNeill Exchequer Rolls Scotl. (1903) XXII. 309 Pennestane grene freeis. 1656 in New-Eng. Historical & Geneal. Reg. (1850) IV. 125 It is my will yt my cousine Elizabeth fich have my searge gowne, and my Read penniston petticote. 1685 East-Hampton Rec. II. 172 Send mee..Peniston Blewe Linning. 1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge xix. 345 Poor, drenched, stormstaid devils, in their blue pennistone greatcoats, shivering on the opposite bank. C2. Penistone flag n. any of a group of sandstones quarried around Penistone and used for making paving stones (cf. sense 2). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > stone as material for paving > a paving stone > others pennant flag1756 fairy pavements1787 Purbeck1833 coffin-stone1845 Penistone flag1878 1878 A. H. Green et al. Geol. Yorks. Coal-field ii. §3. 77 The Penistone Flags are a group of very variable sandstones, with a few thin and poor coals. They are best developed around Penistone, and may be traced thence southwards to Sheffield. 1998 Guardian (Nexis) 31 Jan. 20 All over this eastern flank of the highest ground are outcroppings of the Lower Coal Measures, containing so much valuable building stone and roofing flags—Greenmoor Rock, Grenoside Sandstone, Penistone Flag. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1551 |
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