piercern.

Brit.

/ˈpɪəsə/, U.S.

/ˈpɪrsər/

Forms: Middle English parsoure, Middle English parsowre, Middle English parsur, Middle English perces (in a late copy, transmission error), Middle English perescher, Middle English perfours (plural, transmission error), Middle English persere, Middle English persore (in a late copy), Middle English persoure, Middle English persowre, Middle English persure, Middle English peser (transmission error), Middle English–1500s persour, Middle English–1600s percer, 1500s parser, 1500s persar, 1500s perser, 1500s persor, 1500s pierser, 1500s–1600s pearcer, 1500s–1600s pearser, 1600s– piercer, 1800s– parcer (English regional (Yorkshire)); also Scottish pre-1700 pearcer, pre-1700 peirsare; N.E.D. (1906) also records a form Middle English persowyr.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: French perçur ; pierce v., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: Partly < Anglo-Norman perçur, perceur, perceure, perchur, persour, parçure (early 14th cent. or earlier; compare Middle French percheur (mid 15th cent.); French perceur ; < percer pierce v. + -our , -ur -er suffix²), and partly < pierce v. + -er suffix¹.It is unclear whether the following earlier examples should be interpreted as showing the Anglo-Norman or the Middle English word:1319 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 154 j martell ij wymbles & ij perceurs.1344–5 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 379 Item, v percours.1404 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 399 1 persour. Earlier currency of the word is perhaps implied by the surname Radulphus Percer (1205).

a. A tool for piercing or boring holes, such as an auger, awl, or gimlet; (Archaeology) a class of stone tool. Also figurative.Recorded earliest in piercer-iron n. at Compounds 2.In quot. c1500 personified.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun]

piercer1421

pritchel?a1500

piercel1747

pritch1795

1421–2 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 228 (MED) In persouryrnes et 2 fenestris vitreis pro parvo celario de Wytton, 14 d.

a1425 (?1348) R. Rolle Form of Living (Arun.) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 413 (MED) Lomys, as axes, wymbils, perfours [read persours].

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 395 Persowre, terebellum [?a1475 Winch. terebrum].

c1500 Debate Carpenter's Tools in Rev. Eng. Stud. (1987) 38 457 ‘Ȝe,’ seyd the persore..‘Als fere as I may stret and streche..Fast to rune into the wode..byte I schall with moth full gode.’

1541 in State Papers Henry VIII (1830) I. 687 Such tooles as persers, augers, sawes, and suche other.

1602 R. Tyrie 5 Godlie Serm. 185 Except the Lord boare our eares with the piercer of his spirit.

1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. v. 91 The stock of the Piercer by reason of..a sholder or Butting out upon the work will not turn about.

1726 J. Laurence New Syst. Agric. 213 The best way to know the State of the Tree, is to bore with a middling Piercer.

1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 19 The Sand will set upon your Piercer or Augre.

1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 16 The workman takes what he calls a spring piercer, a tool..consisting of two somewhat elastic steel blades.

1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 48 The man..provided with a ‘gavelock’ or ‘piercer’—a strong iron bar rounded and sharpened at the heavy end—makes holes at intervals of eight or ten feet for the reception of the stakes.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 505 This downy skin, these soft muscles, this tender flesh. If only I had my gold piercer here!

1958 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 88 191 Flake and blade implements include..‘piercers’, which are the equivalent of my ‘borers’.

1996 Chef's Catal. Spring 20/1 Cap lifter/can piercer and lid lifter.

†b. Surgery. A surgical instrument for boring or piercing; spec. a trephine. Cf. terebra n. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > piercing or boring instruments

rinspindlec1392

piercer?a1425

terebellum1678

perforator1739

perforative1740

Terebella1860

pricker1869

burr1899

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 72^v (MED) Crepanez [read Trepanez]..beþ to make holes..to maner of a terebelle, i. a persour with a circumuoluyng bosyng a litel aboue þat sharp extremitee þat is in þe terebelle, þat in persyng it falle not vp on dura mater.

c1475 tr. Henri de Mondeville Surgery (Wellcome) f. 163 (MED) Boþe his crepanum, þat is to seie, persour, & his lenticuler muste haue sum additament þat mowe kepe hem þat þei go not to depe.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tirefond de Chirurgien, a Surgeons Terebra, or Piercer; an Instrument which he puts vnto diuers vses.

1846 F. Brittan tr. J. F. Malgaigne Man. Operative Surg. 347 The piercer is withdrawn, and a double waxed thread passed through its canula.

c. Chiefly Zoology. An appendage of an arthropod, used for piercing or boring; esp. the mouthparts of a bloodsucking insect; a sting; an ovipositor. Cf. terebra n. 2. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > organ for piercing

piercer1681

1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §vii. 156 Flys, at the end of their Proboscis, have a Piercer where-with they broach the Skin.

1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) ii. 78 The hollow Instrument (terebra he calls it, and we may English it piercer) wherewith many Flies are provided.

1792 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 82 189 The apparatus [of a bee's sting] consists of two piercers, conducted in a groove, or director.

1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. vi. i. 294 Rostrum [of the Head-louse]..c, piercer, formed of four capillary threads.

1951 Proc. Royal Soc. 138 171 He [sc. Leeuwenhoek] describes and figures the eversible mouthparts as an exceedingly fine piercer or ‘sting’.

a. A person, animal, etc., that pierces, penetrates, or makes a hole in something; †an invader (obsolete). Also figurative.body-, stone-, wood-piercer, etc.: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > [noun] > by boring, piercing, or perforating > one who or that which

piercer?a1475

hand punch1803

puncher1876

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 357 (MED) This myȝhty Hercules was the tamer of the worlde..the perescher of Inde [L. Indiæ penetrator].

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 578 Vnneth any creature..could holde either hand close, or purse shut, such a strong percer is monie.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xxvii. sig. Ff7^v Basilius,..not the sharpest pearcer into masked minds.

a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) xii. xiii. f. 479, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Peirsare William rede..causit him tak Peirsé to name quhilk signifyis the peirsare of the e.

a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Loves Pilgrimage iv. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Cccccccc2^v/1 Is there Ever a good heartist, or a member percer, or a Small-gut man left?

1777 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, quarto) IV. vi. 147 Teredo. Piercer..Penetrates into the stoutest oak plant, and effects their destruction.

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. xix. 313 ‘It must be a piercer if it finds its way through your heart,’ said Mr. Sikes.

1862 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects Injurious to Vegetation (ed. 3) 512 The insects of this order [sc. Hymenoptera] may be divided into two groups, Stingers and Piercers.

1958 Admin. Sci. Q. 3 141 They are not signaling me to drop more billets out of the furnace because the piercer figures he ain't going to break his back for nothing.

1993 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 3 Aug. c1 (caption) Flowers evolved into a world already full of insect crushers, piercers, chewers, sippers and borers.

b. A person employed in making ornamental perforations in silver, porcelain, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > who bores or perforates

borer1483

puncher1681

piercer1736

driller1835

broacher1927

1736 J. Byrom Jrnl. 17 May in Private Jrnl. & Lit. Remains (1856) II. i. 43 (transcript from orig. shorthand) Went to Mr. Joyce's the piercer,..he had made a specimen or two of etching and piercing.

1852 Internat. Mag. Lit., Art & Sci. Apr. 507/1 Here, slide-makers, jewellers, motion-makers.., the pendent-maker, the engraver, the piercer..are all located.

1898 Daily Chron. 24 Sept. 10/6 Saw Piercer wanted, one used to leaf work.

1902 Daily Chron. 20 Feb. 8/7 Silver Piercer.—Young lady requires Situation.

1990 Sunday Mail (S. Austral.) (Nexis) 4 Nov. Members include manufacturing jewellers, silversmiths..electroplaters, stampers and piercers and tool makers connected to the trade.

c. A person who carries out body-piercing as a profession. Cf. body piercer n. at body n. Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the body > [noun] > other forms of decorating the body > one who pierces

body piercer1977

piercer1990

1975 Newsweek (Nexis) 19 May 93 Gold studs and hoops are selling as fast as the ear piercer can stab his needle.]

1990 Gay Times Dec. (Centre section) 24/1 Nipple piercing, can anyone recommend a good piercer in or near London.

2004 Omaha World Herald (Nebraska) (Nexis) 10 Mar. 8 b Nebraska moved a step closer Tuesday to requiring licenses for professional tattooists, piercers and other body artists.

3. slang. An eye with a keen or penetrating gaze. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > types of sight organ > [noun]

ferret-eye1590

squirrel eyes1600

hawk's eye1684

piercer1752

gimlet-eye1825

lynx-eye1828

bug-eyes1905

camera eye1908

night eye1934

1752 S. Foote Taste i. 10 She had but one Eye indeed, but that was a Piercer.

?1782 H. Walpole Let. to W. Mason in Lett. (1846) VI. 164 How much more execution a fine woman could do with two pair of piercers!

1834 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 35 743 Her eyes were piercers.

1840 H. Cockton Life Valentine Vox 47 They are..the oddest eyes that ever looked through a man: such piercers.

1956 Times 27 Aug. 9/5 He had only one eye but that one was a piercer, for he could read the names of the ships..long before I could.

Compounds

C1. (Sense 1.)

† piercer-bit n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1604 Rates Marchandizes sig. G2 Percer bitts the groce..v.s.

1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. 161 They Pierce holes, with a Piercer-Bit.

† piercer-blade n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 253/2 Percerblade, estoc.

C2.

† piercer-iron n. (in form persouryrne) Obsolete rare (perhaps) part of the ironwork of a window.

ΚΠ

1421-2Piercer-iron [see sense 1a].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	piercer
释义	piercern. Brit. /ˈpɪəsə/, U.S. /ˈpɪrsər/ Forms: Middle English parsoure, Middle English parsowre, Middle English parsur, Middle English perces (in a late copy, transmission error), Middle English perescher, Middle English perfours (plural, transmission error), Middle English persere, Middle English persore (in a late copy), Middle English persoure, Middle English persowre, Middle English persure, Middle English peser (transmission error), Middle English–1500s persour, Middle English–1600s percer, 1500s parser, 1500s persar, 1500s perser, 1500s persor, 1500s pierser, 1500s–1600s pearcer, 1500s–1600s pearser, 1600s– piercer, 1800s– parcer (English regional (Yorkshire)); also Scottish pre-1700 pearcer, pre-1700 peirsare; N.E.D. (1906) also records a form Middle English persowyr. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: French perçur ; pierce v., -er suffix¹. Etymology: Partly < Anglo-Norman perçur, perceur, perceure, perchur, persour, parçure (early 14th cent. or earlier; compare Middle French percheur (mid 15th cent.); French perceur ; < percer pierce v. + -our , -ur -er suffix²), and partly < pierce v. + -er suffix¹.It is unclear whether the following earlier examples should be interpreted as showing the Anglo-Norman or the Middle English word:1319 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 154 j martell ij wymbles & ij perceurs.1344–5 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 379 Item, v percours.1404 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 399 1 persour. Earlier currency of the word is perhaps implied by the surname Radulphus Percer (1205). 1. a. A tool for piercing or boring holes, such as an auger, awl, or gimlet; (Archaeology) a class of stone tool. Also figurative.Recorded earliest in piercer-iron n. at Compounds 2.In quot. c1500 personified. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] piercer1421 pritchel?a1500 piercel1747 pritch1795 1421–2 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 228 (MED) In persouryrnes et 2 fenestris vitreis pro parvo celario de Wytton, 14 d. a1425 (?1348) R. Rolle Form of Living (Arun.) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 413 (MED) Lomys, as axes, wymbils, perfours [read persours]. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 395 Persowre, terebellum [?a1475 Winch. terebrum]. c1500 Debate Carpenter's Tools in Rev. Eng. Stud. (1987) 38 457 ‘Ȝe,’ seyd the persore..‘Als fere as I may stret and streche..Fast to rune into the wode..byte I schall with moth full gode.’ 1541 in State Papers Henry VIII (1830) I. 687 Such tooles as persers, augers, sawes, and suche other. 1602 R. Tyrie 5 Godlie Serm. 185 Except the Lord boare our eares with the piercer of his spirit. 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. v. 91 The stock of the Piercer by reason of..a sholder or Butting out upon the work will not turn about. 1726 J. Laurence New Syst. Agric. 213 The best way to know the State of the Tree, is to bore with a middling Piercer. 1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 19 The Sand will set upon your Piercer or Augre. 1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 16 The workman takes what he calls a spring piercer, a tool..consisting of two somewhat elastic steel blades. 1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 48 The man..provided with a ‘gavelock’ or ‘piercer’—a strong iron bar rounded and sharpened at the heavy end—makes holes at intervals of eight or ten feet for the reception of the stakes. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 505 This downy skin, these soft muscles, this tender flesh. If only I had my gold piercer here! 1958 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 88 191 Flake and blade implements include..‘piercers’, which are the equivalent of my ‘borers’. 1996 Chef's Catal. Spring 20/1 Cap lifter/can piercer and lid lifter. †b. Surgery. A surgical instrument for boring or piercing; spec. a trephine. Cf. terebra n. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > piercing or boring instruments rinspindlec1392 piercer?a1425 terebellum1678 perforator1739 perforative1740 Terebella1860 pricker1869 burr1899 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 72^v (MED) Crepanez [read Trepanez]..beþ to make holes..to maner of a terebelle, i. a persour with a circumuoluyng bosyng a litel aboue þat sharp extremitee þat is in þe terebelle, þat in persyng it falle not vp on dura mater. c1475 tr. Henri de Mondeville Surgery (Wellcome) f. 163 (MED) Boþe his crepanum, þat is to seie, persour, & his lenticuler muste haue sum additament þat mowe kepe hem þat þei go not to depe. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tirefond de Chirurgien, a Surgeons Terebra, or Piercer; an Instrument which he puts vnto diuers vses. 1846 F. Brittan tr. J. F. Malgaigne Man. Operative Surg. 347 The piercer is withdrawn, and a double waxed thread passed through its canula. c. Chiefly Zoology. An appendage of an arthropod, used for piercing or boring; esp. the mouthparts of a bloodsucking insect; a sting; an ovipositor. Cf. terebra n. 2. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > organ for piercing piercer1681 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §vii. 156 Flys, at the end of their Proboscis, have a Piercer where-with they broach the Skin. 1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) ii. 78 The hollow Instrument (terebra he calls it, and we may English it piercer) wherewith many Flies are provided. 1792 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 82 189 The apparatus [of a bee's sting] consists of two piercers, conducted in a groove, or director. 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. vi. i. 294 Rostrum [of the Head-louse]..c, piercer, formed of four capillary threads. 1951 Proc. Royal Soc. 138 171 He [sc. Leeuwenhoek] describes and figures the eversible mouthparts as an exceedingly fine piercer or ‘sting’. 2. a. A person, animal, etc., that pierces, penetrates, or makes a hole in something; †an invader (obsolete). Also figurative.body-, stone-, wood-piercer, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > [noun] > by boring, piercing, or perforating > one who or that which piercer?a1475 hand punch1803 puncher1876 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 357 (MED) This myȝhty Hercules was the tamer of the worlde..the perescher of Inde [L. Indiæ penetrator]. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 578 Vnneth any creature..could holde either hand close, or purse shut, such a strong percer is monie. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xxvii. sig. Ff7^v Basilius,..not the sharpest pearcer into masked minds. a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) xii. xiii. f. 479, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Peirsare William rede..causit him tak Peirsé to name quhilk signifyis the peirsare of the e. a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Loves Pilgrimage iv. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Cccccccc2^v/1 Is there Ever a good heartist, or a member percer, or a Small-gut man left? 1777 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, quarto) IV. vi. 147 Teredo. Piercer..Penetrates into the stoutest oak plant, and effects their destruction. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. xix. 313 ‘It must be a piercer if it finds its way through your heart,’ said Mr. Sikes. 1862 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects Injurious to Vegetation (ed. 3) 512 The insects of this order [sc. Hymenoptera] may be divided into two groups, Stingers and Piercers. 1958 Admin. Sci. Q. 3 141 They are not signaling me to drop more billets out of the furnace because the piercer figures he ain't going to break his back for nothing. 1993 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 3 Aug. c1 (caption) Flowers evolved into a world already full of insect crushers, piercers, chewers, sippers and borers. b. A person employed in making ornamental perforations in silver, porcelain, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > who bores or perforates borer1483 puncher1681 piercer1736 driller1835 broacher1927 1736 J. Byrom Jrnl. 17 May in Private Jrnl. & Lit. Remains (1856) II. i. 43 (transcript from orig. shorthand) Went to Mr. Joyce's the piercer,..he had made a specimen or two of etching and piercing. 1852 Internat. Mag. Lit., Art & Sci. Apr. 507/1 Here, slide-makers, jewellers, motion-makers.., the pendent-maker, the engraver, the piercer..are all located. 1898 Daily Chron. 24 Sept. 10/6 Saw Piercer wanted, one used to leaf work. 1902 Daily Chron. 20 Feb. 8/7 Silver Piercer.—Young lady requires Situation. 1990 Sunday Mail (S. Austral.) (Nexis) 4 Nov. Members include manufacturing jewellers, silversmiths..electroplaters, stampers and piercers and tool makers connected to the trade. c. A person who carries out body-piercing as a profession. Cf. body piercer n. at body n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the body > [noun] > other forms of decorating the body > one who pierces body piercer1977 piercer1990 1975 Newsweek (Nexis) 19 May 93 Gold studs and hoops are selling as fast as the ear piercer can stab his needle.] 1990 Gay Times Dec. (Centre section) 24/1 Nipple piercing, can anyone recommend a good piercer in or near London. 2004 Omaha World Herald (Nebraska) (Nexis) 10 Mar. 8 b Nebraska moved a step closer Tuesday to requiring licenses for professional tattooists, piercers and other body artists. 3. slang. An eye with a keen or penetrating gaze. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > types of sight organ > [noun] ferret-eye1590 squirrel eyes1600 hawk's eye1684 piercer1752 gimlet-eye1825 lynx-eye1828 bug-eyes1905 camera eye1908 night eye1934 1752 S. Foote Taste i. 10 She had but one Eye indeed, but that was a Piercer. ?1782 H. Walpole Let. to W. Mason in Lett. (1846) VI. 164 How much more execution a fine woman could do with two pair of piercers! 1834 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 35 743 Her eyes were piercers. 1840 H. Cockton Life Valentine Vox 47 They are..the oddest eyes that ever looked through a man: such piercers. 1956 Times 27 Aug. 9/5 He had only one eye but that one was a piercer, for he could read the names of the ships..long before I could. Compounds C1. (Sense 1.) † piercer-bit n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1604 Rates Marchandizes sig. G2 Percer bitts the groce..v.s. 1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. 161 They Pierce holes, with a Piercer-Bit. † piercer-blade n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 253/2 Percerblade, estoc. C2. † piercer-iron n. (in form persouryrne) Obsolete rare (perhaps) part of the ironwork of a window. ΚΠ 1421-2Piercer-iron [see sense 1a]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1421
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