单词 | pomewater |
释义 | pomewatern. Now historical. A large, juicy, sharp-tasting variety of apple.In quot. 1607 figurative: cf. apple n. 6. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > eating-apple > types of costardc1390 bitter-sweet1393 pippin?1435 pomewater?1435 Queening?1435 richardine?1435 blaundrellc1440 pear apple1440 tuberc1440 quarrendenc1450 birtle1483 sweeting1530 pomeroyal1534 renneta1568 deusan1570 apple-john1572 Richard1572 lording1573 russeting1573 greening1577 queen apple1579 peeler1580 reinette1582 darling1584 doucin1584 golding1589 puffin1589 lady's longing1591 bitter-sweeting1597 pearmain1597 paradise apple1598 garden globe1600 gastlet1600 leather-coat1600 maligar1600 pomeroy1600 short-start1600 jenneting1601 pome-paradise1601 russet coat1602 John apple1604 honey apple1611 honeymeal1611 musk apple1611 short-shank1611 spice apple1611 French pippin1629 king apple1635 lady apple1651 golden pippin1654 goldling1655 puff1655 cardinal1658 renneting1658 green fillet1662 chestnut1664 cinnamon apple1664 fenouil1664 go-no-further1664 reinetting1664 Westbury apple1664 seek-no-farther1670 nonsuch1676 white-wining1676 russet1686 calville1691 fennel apple1699 queen1699 genet1706 fig-apple1707 oaken pin1707 musk1708 nonpareil1726 costing1731 monstrous reinette1731 Newtown pippin1760 Ribston1782 Rhode Island greening1795 oslin1801 wine apple1802 fall pippin1803 monstrous pippin1817 Newtown Spitzenburg1817 Gravenstein1821 Red Astrachan1822 Tolman sweet1822 grange apple1823 orange pippin1823 Baldwin1826 wine-sap1826 Jonathan1831 Sturmer Pippin1831 rusty-coat1843 Newtowner1846 Northern Spy1847 Cornish gilliflowerc1850 Blenheim Orange1860 Cox1860 nutmeg pippin1860 McIntosh Red1876 Worcester1877 raspberry apple1894 delicious1898 Laxton's Superb1920 Melba apple1928 Melba1933 Mutsu1951 Newtown1953 discovery1964 ?1435 ( J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 642 The pome-water and the gentyll ricardouns. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. ii. 4 Ripe as the Pomwater . View more context for this quotation 1607 ‘W. S.’ Puritaine C j b The Captaine louing you so deerely, I, like the Pomwater of his eye, and you to be so vncomfortable, fie, fie. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 72 The fruit, when 'tis ripe, as big as the largest Pomewater. 1747 Bradley's Dict. Plants II. (at cited word) The Pomewater is an excellent good and great whitish Apple, full of Sap.., sharp, but a little bitter withal. 1792 J. Hamilton Culpeper's Eng. Family Physician I. 152 The ointment called Pomatum, ought to be made of a large juicy green apple, called a Pomewater, but the pomatum now in use, is made after another manner. 1832 L. Hunt Sir Ralph Esher I. x. 214 The pome-water..far surpasses the queening. 1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words Pomewater, a large apple, tempting to the sight, but excessively sour. 1936 H. V. Taylor Apples Eng. iii. 34 The Pomewater, a once famous apple that has now disappeared, was a popular early cooking variety. 1973 C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Brit. ix. 331 By the fifteenth century pippins, pomewaters, bittersweets and blanderelles had become fashionable apple varieties. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1435 |
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