α. 1800s pwinin-end, 1900s– pinion-end.
β. 1800s– pinning-end, 1800s– pwining-end.
单词 | pinion-end |
释义 | pinion-endn.α. 1800s pwinin-end, 1900s– pinion-end. β. 1800s– pinning-end, 1800s– pwining-end. English regional (south-western) and Irish English. A gable end. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > wall of building > [noun] > end wall > with triangular top gablec1390 gable endc1390 pike wall1440 pine-end1753 pinion-end1825 1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 61 Pwine-end, Pwinin-end, the sharp-pointed end of a house, where the wall rises perpendicularly from the foundation. 1882 T. Hardy Two on Tower II. ii. 23 The wind have blowed down the chimley..and the pinning-end with it. 1935 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Nov. 770/4 In my boyhood I often heard the term ‘pinion’, for gable, in Co. Waterford, Ireland; in fact the word was used to the exclusion of ‘gable’, and usually it was made an adjective—pinion-end. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1825 |
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