单词 | polroz |
释义 | polrozn. English regional (Cornwall). Now rare. The pit under a waterwheel at a mine. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > driven by water > parts of awe1503 scoop1591 float1611 ladle1611 sole1675 float-board1719 ladle-board1744 paddle1758 shrouding1797 wrist1797 polroz1806 breastwork1833 flap1839 shrouding-plate1844 shroud-plate1844 staving1875 shroud- 1806 R. Polwhele Lang., Lit., & Lit. Char. Cornwall 12 Pul-rose, the pool under the wheel of a mill. 1830 W. Baird in 9th Rep. Directors to Shareholders, Imperial Brazilian Mining Assoc. App. 63 A great part of the heavy frame work for the pulrose, or wheel-pit, is squared up. 1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 278 These..terms appear strange to the English language. I might add the words ‘bryle’, ‘chats’, ‘terluing’, ‘dzhu’,‘polroz’, ‘zyghyr’, and others. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 165 Polroz [in Cornwall], the pit underneath a water-wheel. 1923 J. C. Tregarthen John Penrose x. 99 The master-fish of our waters..was the trout of the pulrose, as we called the deep pit beneath the mill-wheel. 1938 R. M. Nance New Cornish-English Dict. Pol-rōs..D[ialect] pulrose. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1806 |
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