单词 | peramble |
释义 | peramblen. rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [noun] > ambulatory walking placec1384 deambulatory1430 peramble1440 ambulatory1483 deambulatoura1522 walk1530 perambulatory1636 1440 in J. L. Fisher Medieval Farming Gloss. (1968) 26/2 Perambol [passageway]. 1546 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) II. App. A. 7 At Windsor..Al the church peramble, and the choir of the college hung and garnished as aforesaid. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > walking round or about > walking round boundaries perambulation1425 peramble1476 perambulatingc1600 1476 in C. Rogers Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879) I. 224 With the ij talis [read takis] of land left and made to ws be the last perambil ryddyn and made to ws betuyx the Abbay of Scone and ws. 1557 in C. Rogers Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1880) II. 137 The tway talis [read takis] of land last maid to ws be the last perambule betuix the Abbay of Scone and ws. 3. English regional (chiefly northern and Lincolnshire). A long rambling tale or speech. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] > instance of > rambling tale tale of a tub1532 cock-and-bull story1670 blind story1699 peramble1824 shaggy dog story1937 1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ 28 Thou's maad sike a feaful lang perammle..at thouz nivver tell'd me whar them shooters war gangin tull. 1852 in E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (1889) II. 400 Ohd Mr. H..ewsed to tell sich perambles aboot th'corn laws. 1900 Cent. Mag. Feb. 603 When he had finished the paramble of his woes to Andy. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 223/1 Peramble, a long, rambling story that never seems to reach its end and doesn't really seem to have much point when it does finish. 4. A walk, a ramble; a short excursion with no particular route or aim. rare. ΚΠ 1933 W. H. W. Sabine Guido & Girls x. 116 He paused in his peramble to survey the place where love's allurements had him bound. 1957 J. Steinbeck Short Reign of Pippin IV 42 He wandered blindly up-Seine on the Left Bank..During his long and slow peramble. 1992 Times (Nexis) 19 Feb. (Features section) Some features of the house are better designed for a passing peramble than a longer stay. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). peramblev. Originally Scottish. Now English regional (Lincolnshire) a. transitive. To walk around a piece of land with a view to formally determining its boundaries; (also) to determine or confirm a boundary by walking along it. Cf. perambulation n. 1a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > traverse on foot [verb (transitive)] > round > a boundary or the boundaries of perambulate1450 peramble1480 walk1569 1480 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 62/2 Charginge him to se & knaw gife þe said landis be lauchefully peramblit. 1485 in A. L. Murray Lag Charters (1958) 53 And eftir at the said assise had perambulyt the saidis landis. 1596 in D. Murray Early Burgh Organization in Scotl. (1924) II. 217 That..thair haill common lands sall be perambulit ȝeirlie anes in the yeir. 1600 in J. D. Marwick Rec. Convent. Royal Burghs Scotl. (1870) II. 81 That ewere brugh sall peramble thair mercheis ewerie ȝeir. b. transitive. gen. To walk over or about (a place). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (transitive)] > wander (one's way, etc.) > wander in, over, or about peramble1508 rove1537 wander?1573 enrange1596 roam1603 stray1613 ramble1679 raika1730 overwander1821 pervagate1871 1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 211 I perambalit of Pernaso the montayn. 1539–40 in 9th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1883) App. i. 306 Ordered that a watche be sett forth..yeerly..for evermore..on the vigil of Seynt John Baptist..att nyght circumspectly and in dew order to peramble the circuyte of the saide towne. 2. intransitive. To wander or ramble in speaking. Now English regional (Lincolnshire). ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander wharvec890 woreOE wandera1000 rengec1230 wagc1325 roamc1330 errc1374 raikc1390 ravec1390 rumblec1400 rollc1405 railc1425 roit1440 waverc1440 rangea1450 rove1481 to-waver1487 vaguea1525 evague1533 rangle1567 to go a-strayinga1586 vagary1598 divagate1599 obambulate1614 vagitate1614 ramble1615 divage1623 pererrate1623 squander1630 peramble1632 rink1710 ratch1801 browse1803 vagrate1807 bum1857 piroot1858 scamander1864 truck1864 bat1867 vagrant1886 float1901 vagulate1918 pissant1945 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ix. 422 Ceasing to peramble through any more particulars. 1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) II. 401 When I was badly he cum'd oftens an' talk'd an' praayed wi' me, bud I thoht noht to it; he niver got no fo'ther, bud was alus peramblin' aboot roond two or three wo'ds. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 223/1 Peramble..to talk in a rambling, disconnected way, as someone drunk or half asleep. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1440v.1480 |
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