pillboxn.

Brit.

/ˈpɪlbɒks/, U.S.

/ˈpɪlˌbɑks/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pill n.³, box n.²

Etymology: < pill n.³ + box n.²

a. A box (usually of a shallow cylindrical shape) for holding pills or other small items.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > medicine chest, bag, etc. > [noun] > box

plaster box1487

pillbox1702

1702 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 23 1185 Small round Pill-Boxes, cut transversely like little hoops.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. 3 I seal it up in one of the little Pill boxes which my Lady had.

1838 Knickerbocker 12 332 Some villains maltreated him sadly,..robbing him of his tin pill-boxes, which were full of sixpences.

1872 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera II. xxiv. 4 The first shilling I ever got in my life I put in a pill-box and put it under my pillow, and couldn't sleep all night for satisfaction.

1934 G. B. Shaw Too True to be Good i. 27 A measuring glass, a pill box, a clinical thermometer in a glass of water.

1999 Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair: 1999 Handbk. 241 (caption) A mauve guilloché enamel triangular pill box..by Fabergé.

b. figurative and humorous. Something likened to a pillbox, esp. in size, as a very small or cramped space, vehicle, etc.; something paltry or inconsequential.

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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > receptacle for remains > [noun] > coffin

chestc890

througheOE

tombc1300

cofferc1381

kista1400

coffin1525

box1614

sandapile1623

wooden doublet1761

pillbox1789

casket1849

wooden surtout1864

pine overcoat1890

overcoat1904

wooden kimono1926

pine drape1945

wooden suit1968

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun]

carc1320

chara1400

charet?a1400

wagon1542

carry1600

rotan1676

messagerie1777

pillbox1789

bandy1791

Pennsylvania wagon1800

gharry1810

rath1813

vardo1819

rig1831

1789 T. J. Mathias Satire in Grove 33 (note) Sir Charles's bye-name of the Pill-box, conferred on the other carriage.

1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. vi. 82 Packed up in a snug pill-box in the same grave-yard.

1893 H. Vizetelly Glances Back I. xxi. 410 The select assemblage, crammed into the little pill-box called a town-hall.

1958 Listener 4 Dec. 933/2 Is it another pill-box attempt to debunk the shameful Victorians?

1993 C. Cookson House of Women (BNC) 199 There she is, a rattling pill-box.

2. A pillbox hat.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > having no brim

turban1862

turban hat1862

pillbox1887

pillbox hat1893

Cossack hat1939

shapka1945

1887 R. D. Blumenfeld Diary 27 June (1930) 17 The pill-box..protects only a small portion of the head and forehead from the sun.

1958 L. Durrell Mountolive viii. 166 Red pill-boxes mounted upon cancelled faces.

1994 H. Holland Born in Soweto iv. 70 She wore a bridal head-dress known as a nuptial pillbox, with a veil of fine frothy fabric.

3. Military. A small concrete fortification used as a gun emplacement, observation point, etc.The first pillboxes were built by the British and German armies in 1915, during the First World War (1914–18).

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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > castle or fortified building > [noun] > blockhouse or pill-box

blockhouse1512

Puntal1702

block1829

pillar box1916

pillbox1917

1917 Times 2 Aug. 6/3 The favourite type of German stronghold is a structure of concrete made all in one piece, and not made of blocks, which has been nicknamed ‘the German pill-box’.

1944 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 2 Oct. 1/8 The planes dropped hundreds of tons of explosives on Nazi pillboxes and gunposts.

1974 Times 16 Jan. 2/4 They rested in a wartime pillbox and then got a lift to the outskirts of Chelmsford.

1991 Omni Feb. 38/1 The British government built thousands of pillboxes—concrete miniforts for a handful of soldiers.

Compounds

C1.

a. Like a pillbox in shape or size.

pillbox cap n.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > other

toque1505

biggin1511

button cap1527

undercap1531

biggin1558

fool's cap1577

apex1578

blue capa1586

wishing-cap1600

Wantage cap1609

infernal1610

porringer1623

montera1626

montera cap1652

school cap1736

wing cap1775

balloon1784

balloon-cap1785

spider-cap1790

poke-fly cap1810

strap-cap1820

mandarin cap1835

porringer-cap1839

chechia1853

turban1862

mitre1877

turban-cap1881

half-cap1893

pillbox cap1897

Queen Mary hat1928

snap-back1937

songkok1960

pakul1982

1897 Harper's Mag. Dec. 29/1 Tommy in his red jacket and pill-box cap.

1995 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 36 237 Swynnerton's chief fly boy, Saidi Abdullah, wore a brass buffalo head on his pillbox cap.

pillbox house n.

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1862 Macmillan's Mag. Aug. 284/1 One of those little wooden pill-box houses you see about seaport towns.

2003 Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 7 July 1 b A patchwork of pillbox houses that have been warped and rotted by a decade of rain, unrelenting heat and shrieking wind.

b. Objective.

† pillbox maker n. Obsolete

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1823 E. Baines Hist., Directory & Gazetteer County of York II. 90/1 Kirby Frs. pill box maker, St. Mary's r[oad].

1869 Times 21 Apr. 12/4 He then said the other woman was Mrs Hutchinson, a pill-box-maker in Bethnal-green.

C2.

pillbox hat n. a small, oval hat with straight sides and a flat top.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > having no brim

turban1862

turban hat1862

pillbox1887

pillbox hat1893

Cossack hat1939

shapka1945

1893 R. H. Davis Rulers Mediterranean i. 27 He was directing the firing of a gun, with a pill-box hat on the side of his head.

1902 Daily Chron. 29 Nov. 8/4 The sketch suggests the round pill-box hat.

1992 D. Spoto Laurence Olivier viii. 177 His elegant white uniform, rakish pillbox hat and movie-villain moustache.

† pillbox hydatid n. Medicine Obsolete a hydatid cyst in which no scolices develop from the wall; a sterile hydatid.

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1837 R. Owen in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 117/2 Pill-box Hydatid of Hunter.

1893 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon P[ill-box] hydatid, a sterile hydatid or Acephalocyst.

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

单词	pillbox
释义	pillboxn. Brit. /ˈpɪlbɒks/, U.S. /ˈpɪlˌbɑks/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pill n.³, box n.² Etymology: < pill n.³ + box n.² 1. a. A box (usually of a shallow cylindrical shape) for holding pills or other small items. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > medicine chest, bag, etc. > [noun] > box plaster box1487 pillbox1702 1702 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 23 1185 Small round Pill-Boxes, cut transversely like little hoops. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. 3 I seal it up in one of the little Pill boxes which my Lady had. 1838 Knickerbocker 12 332 Some villains maltreated him sadly,..robbing him of his tin pill-boxes, which were full of sixpences. 1872 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera II. xxiv. 4 The first shilling I ever got in my life I put in a pill-box and put it under my pillow, and couldn't sleep all night for satisfaction. 1934 G. B. Shaw Too True to be Good i. 27 A measuring glass, a pill box, a clinical thermometer in a glass of water. 1999 Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair: 1999 Handbk. 241 (caption) A mauve guilloché enamel triangular pill box..by Fabergé. b. figurative and humorous. Something likened to a pillbox, esp. in size, as a very small or cramped space, vehicle, etc.; something paltry or inconsequential. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > receptacle for remains > [noun] > coffin chestc890 througheOE tombc1300 cofferc1381 kista1400 coffin1525 box1614 sandapile1623 wooden doublet1761 pillbox1789 casket1849 wooden surtout1864 pine overcoat1890 overcoat1904 wooden kimono1926 pine drape1945 wooden suit1968 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] carc1320 chara1400 charet?a1400 wagon1542 carry1600 rotan1676 messagerie1777 pillbox1789 bandy1791 Pennsylvania wagon1800 gharry1810 rath1813 vardo1819 rig1831 1789 T. J. Mathias Satire in Grove 33 (note) Sir Charles's bye-name of the Pill-box, conferred on the other carriage. 1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. vi. 82 Packed up in a snug pill-box in the same grave-yard. 1893 H. Vizetelly Glances Back I. xxi. 410 The select assemblage, crammed into the little pill-box called a town-hall. 1958 Listener 4 Dec. 933/2 Is it another pill-box attempt to debunk the shameful Victorians? 1993 C. Cookson House of Women (BNC) 199 There she is, a rattling pill-box. 2. A pillbox hat. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > having no brim turban1862 turban hat1862 pillbox1887 pillbox hat1893 Cossack hat1939 shapka1945 1887 R. D. Blumenfeld Diary 27 June (1930) 17 The pill-box..protects only a small portion of the head and forehead from the sun. 1958 L. Durrell Mountolive viii. 166 Red pill-boxes mounted upon cancelled faces. 1994 H. Holland Born in Soweto iv. 70 She wore a bridal head-dress known as a nuptial pillbox, with a veil of fine frothy fabric. 3. Military. A small concrete fortification used as a gun emplacement, observation point, etc.The first pillboxes were built by the British and German armies in 1915, during the First World War (1914–18). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > castle or fortified building > [noun] > blockhouse or pill-box blockhouse1512 Puntal1702 block1829 pillar box1916 pillbox1917 1917 Times 2 Aug. 6/3 The favourite type of German stronghold is a structure of concrete made all in one piece, and not made of blocks, which has been nicknamed ‘the German pill-box’. 1944 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 2 Oct. 1/8 The planes dropped hundreds of tons of explosives on Nazi pillboxes and gunposts. 1974 Times 16 Jan. 2/4 They rested in a wartime pillbox and then got a lift to the outskirts of Chelmsford. 1991 Omni Feb. 38/1 The British government built thousands of pillboxes—concrete miniforts for a handful of soldiers. Compounds C1. a. Like a pillbox in shape or size. pillbox cap n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > other toque1505 biggin1511 button cap1527 undercap1531 biggin1558 fool's cap1577 apex1578 blue capa1586 wishing-cap1600 Wantage cap1609 infernal1610 porringer1623 montera1626 montera cap1652 school cap1736 wing cap1775 balloon1784 balloon-cap1785 spider-cap1790 poke-fly cap1810 strap-cap1820 mandarin cap1835 porringer-cap1839 chechia1853 turban1862 mitre1877 turban-cap1881 half-cap1893 pillbox cap1897 Queen Mary hat1928 snap-back1937 songkok1960 pakul1982 1897 Harper's Mag. Dec. 29/1 Tommy in his red jacket and pill-box cap. 1995 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 36 237 Swynnerton's chief fly boy, Saidi Abdullah, wore a brass buffalo head on his pillbox cap. pillbox house n. ΚΠ 1862 Macmillan's Mag. Aug. 284/1 One of those little wooden pill-box houses you see about seaport towns. 2003 Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 7 July 1 b A patchwork of pillbox houses that have been warped and rotted by a decade of rain, unrelenting heat and shrieking wind. b. Objective. † pillbox maker n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1823 E. Baines Hist., Directory & Gazetteer County of York II. 90/1 Kirby Frs. pill box maker, St. Mary's r[oad]. 1869 Times 21 Apr. 12/4 He then said the other woman was Mrs Hutchinson, a pill-box-maker in Bethnal-green. C2. pillbox hat n. a small, oval hat with straight sides and a flat top. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > having no brim turban1862 turban hat1862 pillbox1887 pillbox hat1893 Cossack hat1939 shapka1945 1893 R. H. Davis Rulers Mediterranean i. 27 He was directing the firing of a gun, with a pill-box hat on the side of his head. 1902 Daily Chron. 29 Nov. 8/4 The sketch suggests the round pill-box hat. 1992 D. Spoto Laurence Olivier viii. 177 His elegant white uniform, rakish pillbox hat and movie-villain moustache. † pillbox hydatid n. Medicine Obsolete a hydatid cyst in which no scolices develop from the wall; a sterile hydatid. ΚΠ 1837 R. Owen in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 117/2 Pill-box Hydatid of Hunter. 1893 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon P[ill-box] hydatid, a sterile hydatid or Acephalocyst. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1702
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