单词 | persh |
释义 | pershn.adj. Now English regional (Gloucestershire). A. n. Flexible branches or twigs of willow or osier; withies. Also: a willow grown for these; esp. the osier, Salix viminalis. straw of persh: a withy, an osier. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > willow > twig or rod of osierc1175 wanda1300 persha1398 withya1400 wicker14.. winding1405 withe1465 yedder1512 writhe1552 writh1810 skein1837 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 252v Persche hatte vimen, -nis, and is a neisshe ȝerde... Of persche [L. viminibus] beþ nedeful bendes and knyttels made to bynde vp vynes and hopes for tunnes. 1443 Acct. in Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archæol. Jrnl. (1902) 8 28 (MED) For strawe of the perse, vi s. viii d. 1563 in R. W. Greaves 1st Ledger Bk. of High Wycombe (1956) 93 Yf any person..bringe in..any Burdens of wood or woodds out of any hedges or els where or any pershes or other younge..trees [etc.]. 1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester Persh, osier. ‘Persh bed.’ 1927 A. Mawer et al. Place-names Worcs. 217 It is definitely a West Country word and still survives in Gloucestershire persh used in the same sense [i.e. osier, twig]. Pliant, flexible. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > pliableness > [adjective] tougha700 lithyc1000 softc1330 weak?a1366 plianta1382 persha1398 plyinga1398 lithec1400 supplec1400 plicable?a1425 curvable?1440 lethec1440 scretec1440 pliablec1475 bowable1483 bowing1483 waldinc1485 supple1513 flexible1548 limber1565 lither1565 bending1567 osier1577 wiry1588 buxom1590 withy1598 suppliable1599 renderingc1600 fluxible1607 winding1609 bendable1611 flippant1622 flexive1629 flexile1633 maniable1633 compliant1667 flectible1705 limp1706 yieldy1757 complying1774 limberly1782 willowy1791 switchy1810 wandy1825 twistable1853 bendsome1861 whippy1867 swack1868 bendy1873 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 246v Some wythies beth..more smalle & plyaunt þan oþre and..beþ persch and beþ so pliaunt [L. ductiles supra modum ac flexibiles] þat þey breketh nouȝt. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1398 |
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