prisen.¹

Brit.

/prʌɪz/,

/priːz/, U.S.

/praɪz/,

/priz/

Forms: Middle English price, Middle English priis, Middle English pris, Middle English prysse, Middle English (1500s Scottish) prys, Middle English 1800s pryse, Middle English 1800s– prise, Middle English–1500s pryce.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French prise; French pris.

Etymology: Either < Anglo-Norman and Old French prise action of taking, capturing (c1170 in specific sense ‘taking of the quarry’ in corner prise or corner la prise to give the horn call indicating that the quarry has been taken: see prise n.²), or < Anglo-Norman and Old French pris, past participle of prendre to take, capture (see prend v.; compare prise n.²).

Hunting. Now historical and in historical contexts.

A blast on a hunting horn indicating that the quarry has been taken. Only in to blow (the) prise, to sound the prise. Formerly also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > signals > call or signal [verb (transitive)] > sound a call

to blow (the) prisec1300

strakea1400

to blow the (also a) deathc1425

to blow (also sound, wind, etc.) the (also a) mort1555

to sound the prise1803

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (intransitive)] > sound horn

to blow (the) prisec1300

poopc1390

strakea1400

recheatc1400

rechasec1425

to blow the quarryc1560

jeopard1575

to wind the horn1611

to sound the prise1803

horn1874

c1300 Body & Soul (Laud Misc. 108) (1889) 61 (MED) He beden him hontin and blowen, Crien and Bauston and Bewis, Þe ratches þat him were woned te knowen; He scholden sone blowe þe pris.

c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 2749 (MED) Tristrem on huntinge rade..He blewe priis as he can, Þre mot oþer mare.

c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 99 Þan shuld..who so is grettest of þe hunters, blowe þe pryce at couplyng vp.

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 137 Than were they ware of the harte that lay on a grete watir banke, and a brachette bytyng on his throte; and mo othir houndis come aftir; Than kynge Arthure blewe the pryce and dyght the harte.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. xii. 123 And blew the prys triumphall for his [sc. Orodes'] deth.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lii. 177 I can mew a sparhawke, and I can chase the herte and the wyld bore, and blowe the pryce.

1803 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border (ed. 2) III. 389 Sound, merry huntsmen! sound the pryse!

1899 Denton (Maryland) Jrnl. 7 Jan. 1/4 Sometimes in the early morning the horn would sound the prise, but ere forester or keeper could reach the spot the fat buck had been borne away.

1938 T. H. White Sword in Stone xvi. 243 The boar's feet were tied together, a pole was slipped between its legs, and two men hoisted it upon their shoulders. William Twyti stood back, and courteously blew the prise.

1952 Metrop. Mus. Art Bull. 10 207/1 In one scene the stag is at bay, the huntsman blowing the prise to assemble the hunting party.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

prisen.²

Brit.

/prʌɪz/,

/priːz/, U.S.

/praɪz/,

/priz/

Forms: Middle English price, Middle English priis, Middle English pris, Middle English 1700s pryse, Middle English– prise, 1500s prese, 1500s–1600s 1900s– prize, 1600s pryce (Scottish).

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French prise.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman prese, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French prise (French prise ) action of taking, that which is taken, quarry, (of fish) catch (c1119 in Anglo-Norman), (in hunting) action of taking the quarry (c1170; compare prise n.¹), prisoners of war collectively (c1155), action of taking prisoners of war (c1170), seizure, confiscation (c1176), action of bringing something into one's power (c1176), booty (mid 12th cent.), seizure or capture of property in war (e.g. a city) (13th cent.), prisage (14th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), seizure of goods from dependants for the use of a lord or sovereign, dependants' obligations in this respect (14th cent.), raid, plundering expedition (c1353), capture of a ship, the captured ship (1373 as prinse ; compare prize n.²), dose of medicine (1567), use as noun of feminine of past participle of prendre to take (see prend v.). Compare post-classical Latin prisa seizure of goods for use of lord or sovereign, goods thus seized (from 12th cent. in British sources), goods taken by way of custom (frequently c1100–1448 in British sources; 1254 as priza ). Compare Spanish presa (c1330), Italian presa (12th-13th cent.) Portuguese presa (13th cent.). Compare prize n.², prise n.¹With sense 3 compare French prise d'essai (1812). With sense 5 perhaps compare German Prise small dose or amount (especially of snuff) (18th cent.).

1. The seizure of something by a lord for his own use from his feudal tenants or dependants; the seizure of goods for the sovereign's use; an instance of this. Also: a thing so seized or requisitioned; the right of such seizure. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods

prisea1325

seizure1482

disseisin1511

ouster1531

seiser1550

extent1592

prisal1628

sequestration1640

a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) xli. 104 For þat te king ant his ministres of his mainie..makez hoere prises þerease heo passez þoru þe contreie, ant nimez menne godes..biþoute ani paie, ore wel lasse þan þe worz.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 10742 (MED) Sir hubert de boru..Acused was to þe king of mani luþer prise.

c1400 Brut (Rawl. B. 171) 257 (MED) Þe Quene Isabel and þe Mortymer had a grete manie of her retenue þat folwede euermore þe Kyngus courte and went and tok þe Kyngus prises for her penyworthes at gode chepe.

1473 Rolls of Parl. VI. 66/1 And that no prises, exactions, nor prestations shal be sette uppon their persones or goodes, otherwise then have be sette uppon theym.

c1503 tr. Charter of London in R. Arnold Chron. f. x/2 Y^t the constable of the tour of london make no preses by londe ne by water of vytayle or any other thingis what so euer thei ben of men of y^e forsaid cite.

1621 R. Bolton Statutes Ireland 1 (Act 3 Edw. II) Forasmuch as merchants and the common people of this land are much impoverished and oppressed by the prises of great Lords.

1621 R. Bolton Statutes Ireland 1 (Act 3 Edw. II) That no such prises be henceforth made without ready payment.

1750 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 319 That the king might live of his own without taking unusual prises.

1771 E. Ledwich Antiquitates Sarisburienses 53 The former used to make captures upon the latter of hay, corn, beer, and other things under divers denominations, to wit, Pryse, Tyne of Castle, forrage, &c.

1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. ix. 155 All tallages, fifteenths, and prises levied..in the county.

1911 S. A. Morgan Hist. Parl. Taxation in Eng. iv. 149 The king could still retain his right to levy ancient aids and prises, provided they were what his ancestors were wont to exact.

1965 J. C. Holt Magna Carta 50 At Corbridge the lord's bailiff was forbidden to take prises for his own use except by will of the burgesses.

2002 R. H. Fritze & W. B. Robison Hist. Dict. Late Medieval Eng. 34 A parliamentary statute that attempted to limit abuses of the royal prerogative by Edward I regarding the boundaries of the royal forests and prises, the king's right to take the goods of his subjects for the use of the royal household.

2. A portion taken by the sovereign from goods brought into the realm; a duty levied in lieu of this (cf. prisage n.¹ 1). Also: the right or practice of taking such goods. Chiefly in plural (occasionally with singular agreement). Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > [noun] > on imported goods

custom1389

prise1455

aids1523

tariff1592

cocket1612

custom duty1677

indulto1691

ingate1701

parisis1714

inwards1761

customs duty1800

imposition1863

indult1900

1455 Rolls of Parl. V. 293/2 Delyvered to the said Prynce..the said Duchie of Cornewayll..with all manere Libertees..Forfaitures, wrekkes of the See, prises of Wyne, [etc.].

1467–8 Rolls of Parl. V. 585/a A Tonne of Wyne, to be takyn of oure Pryse within oure Port of Bristowe.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1240/2 Peter de Oriall,..gardian of all the forrest of England, of all the escheats, of all the ports of the sea, and of all the prises of England and Ireland.

1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Eee4^v/1 Prise..signifieth also a custome due to the King.

1731 H. Crouch Compl. View Brit. Customs (new ed.) Introd. p. vii Prises, or Prisage, was the ancient Duty payable or taken for foreign Commodities imported.

1911 Eng. Hist. Rev. 26 97 In 1303 Edward obtained from an assembly of foreign merchants in return for..certain remissions of old customs and ‘prises’, the right to levy a fresh set of duties from foreigners.

1953 M. Powicke Thirteenth Cent. (1962) xiii. 629 (note) In 1302 the merchants of Bordeaux were allowed to commute prise for a custom of two shillings per tun.

†3. A small piece of gold or silver coin taken for assay at the Mint. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > trial of purity or weight > metal kept for trial

prise1469

diet1700

1469 in Archaeologia (1806) 15 170 Whenn the seid prises of gold and sylver be made..they shalbe enseled.

†4. Heraldry. A bearing on a coat of arms. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun]

bearing1562

prise1572

formality?1578

charge1599

armorial bearings1610

1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 116^v Thus those prises in coates armoures, which are of many called Fusils, that is to saye Spyndles, may aptly be taken for pillers.

†5. The quantity of medicine to be taken at one time; a dose. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > dose of medicine

dosis1543

dose1600

dation1657

prise1683

1683 W. Salmon Doron Medicum Pref. They are to be found, together with their certain prizes by the Ounce.

Compounds

† prise ale n. [compare post-classical Latin cervisia de prisa (1231 in a British source)] Obsolete rare a duty paid to the sovereign by those who sell ale.

ΚΠ

?a1600 G. Owen Baronia (1861) 45 Prise ale is certen monye payed by custome used within the said baronye [of Kemeys], of all those that sell ale within the said baronye, burghe or manors aforesaid, vz., vd. for every brewinge, which is due to the lorde there by custome used time out of mynde.

prise wine n. [compare post-classical Latin vinum de prisa (1300 in a British source)] wine taken as prisage (prisage n.¹ 1a); cf. prisage wine n. at prisage n.¹ Compounds.

ΚΠ

1530 T. More Let. to Wolsey 10 July in P. H. Hore Hist. Wexford (1900) 234 Disturbing the citie of Waterford in the use of a certayn graunt of prize wynys, made and confermed unto theym, as they allegge, by the Kyngs progenitors.

1736 T. Carte Hist. Life Duke Ormonde I. p. xxxvi After he came of age,..she resigned to him all her dower, except her share of the prise wines.

1980 Amer. Jrnl. Legal Hist. 24 29 Other cases apparently decided by the council included disputes involving the loyal towns,..such as the rights to prise wines between Waterford and Ross.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

prisen.³

Brit.

/prʌɪz/, U.S.

/praɪz/

Forms: late Middle English 1700s– prise, 1500s pryse (Scottish), 1700s– prize.

Origin: Probably of multiple origins. Probably partly a borrowing from French. Partly formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: French prise ; prise v.

Etymology: In early use probably < Middle French, French prise action of taking or grasping (although this is not attested in this specific sense: see prise n.²); in later use < prise v.

Now chiefly regional.

1. An instrument used for prising something; a lever. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > lever or crowbar > [noun]

lever1297

speke1366

crowa1400

gavelock1497

prisea1500

handspoke1513

porter1538

sway1545

handspike1559

heaver1598

coleweigh1600

handspeek1644

forcer1649

ringer1650

ripping-chisel1659

pinch1685

crow-spike1692

Betty1700

wringer1703

crowbar1748

spike1771

pry1803

jemmy1811

crow-iron1817

dog1825

pinchbar1837

jimmy1848

stick1848

pry bar1872

peiser1873

nail bar1929

cane1930

a1500 (c1400) St. Erkenwald (1977) 70 (MED) Wyȝt werke-men..Putten prises þerto..And were þe lydde neuer so large, þai laide hit by sone.

1541 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 176 Item, ane pryse, with ane turning staf.

1807 J. R. Bedford in Tennessee Hist. Mag. (1919) 5 55 Was grounded on shore—made exertions with the poles—these ineffectual, leaped into the water and with prises forced her [sc. a boat] off.

1895 T. Pinnock Black Country Ann. (E.D.D.) Run, fetch a prise, quick to lift on.

1964 L. E. F. English Newfoundland 34 Prise, a lever.

1999 Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 7 Apr. iii. 16 The Hydes packed tobacco in hogshead barrels, compacted with the tobacco ‘prize’.

†2. The action of prising or levering something; an instance of this; (also) leverage. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > [noun] > active mechanical force > ratio of load to force applied > by use of lever

purchase1711

prise1751

leverage1830

1751 J. Daniel Narr. Life Astonishing Adventures x. 136 I cut out a vast square piece from the ship's side..and..made room for a bale to slide out, which, by frequent prises with my lever, I easily effected.

1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xvii. 150 Those plumes which so ornament the wings of birds, and give them as it were more prise upon the air.

1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt 88 Is it fanciful to ascribe this curious upward movement of a river-course to the prise given by it, in its enormous stretch in a straight line from north to south, to the diurnal whirl of the earth from west to east?

Compounds

† prise-beam n. Obsolete rare a lever used in packing tobacco (cf. prise v. 2a).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with other materials > [noun] > with tobacco

scaffold1784

prise-beam1800

tobacco-gratera1877

tobacco-cutter1877

tobacco-wheel1877

1800 W. Tatham Hist. & Pract. Ess. Tobacco 52 As all tobacco must be in due case when it is put into the hogshead, so must the prize-beam retain its depressed position until two distinct ends are attained, to wit, that of giving a compact consistency to the cake [etc.].

† prise-bolt n. Obsolete rare a bolt on a gun carriage by which the gun is manoeuvred.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > gun carriage > [noun] > other parts of carriage

tail-pin1497

brack1622

head-plate1647

transom1688

prise-bolt1705

bracket1753

bracket-bolt1753

pintle1769

rider1779

trail-plate-eye1828

cleat1834

wheel-guard1860

spade1862

nave-hole1867

chassis1869

turntable1889

gun-crutch1898

trail-spade1904

1705 tr. G. Guillet de Saint-Georges Gentleman's Dict. at Plate The Prise-Plates, are two Plates of Iron on the Cheeks of a Gun-Carriage from the Capesquare to the Centre, through which the Prise Bolts go, and on which the Hand-spike rests, when it poises up the Breech of the Piece.

1762 Gen. Hist. Sieges & Battles VI. 69 The large iron knobs, on the cheeks of a carriage, which keep the handspike steady, are called prise bolts.

a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1802/2 Prise-bolts, the projecting bolts at the rear of a mortar-bed or garrison gun-carriage under which the handspikes are inserted for training and maneuvering the piece.

prise house n. U.S. (now historical) a building housing equipment for pressing and packing tobacco leaves (in quot. 1732 as part of a place name).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > workplace > places for working with specific materials > place where tobacco is stored or processed > [noun]

tobacco house1611

prise house1732

stemmery1859

seasoning room1890

1718 Richmond County (Va.) Misc. Court Rec. Bk. in C. R. Lounsbury Illustr. Gloss. Early Southern Archit. & Landscape (1994) 292 A good large Tobacco house called ye press house.]

1732 Laws of Maryland 5 A Point of Land, known by the Name of Hawkins's Prize House Point.

1744 Joseph Ball Letterbk. in C. R. Lounsbury Illustr. Gloss. Early Southern Archit. & Landscape (1994) 292 The roof of the Prise house, and the shades must be pulled off.

1891 Washington Post 4 Aug. 6/2 Seven large two and three story prize houses have been built and lively times are expected in the tobacco trade here this fall.

2001 R. Kammerer Greenville v. 88 (caption) This old ‘Tobacco Town’ photograph..shows O.L. Joyner's four-story prize house on the left and the Eastern and Greenville Tobacco Warehouses on the right.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† prisen.⁴

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a borrowing from French. Etymon: French reprise.

Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps < -prise (in Anglo-Norman and Middle French reprise reproof, reprimand (c1230 in Old French in this sense, rare: see reprise n.)). Compare prise n.⁵Attested only in the work cited (which has an unusually high proportion of alliterations in p-).

Obsolete. rare.

Perhaps: reproof; utterance of angry disapproval or rejection.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun]

telingeOE

chastiment?c1225

snapinga1300

snibbinga1300

reproving?1316

undernimminga1325

correctiona1340

threapening1340

admonishingc1350

reproofa1375

scourgingc1374

correptionc1380

repreyningc1390

reprehensiona1413

undertakingc1430

rebuke?a1439

admonition1440

correptingc1449

rebut?c1450

reprehendingc1450

redargution1483

reproval1493

increpation1502

prisec1540

tasking1543

check1588

improof1590

snubbing1600

threap1636

compellation1656

reprovement1675

reprimanding1698

rowing1812

lecturing1861

carpeting1888

eldering1912

woodshedding1940

stick1956

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being the best > [noun] > best thing or person

highesteOE

bestOE

greatest?c1225

pridec1330

crestc1400

primrosea1450

outrepass1477

A per sea1500

primrose peerless1523

prisec1540

prime1579

surquidry1607

excellency1611

nonsuchc1613

crown jewel1646

top1665

patriarch1700

pièce de résistance1793

number one1825

business1868

resistance piece1870

star1882

mostest1889

koh-i-noor1892

best-ever1905

flagship1933

the end1950

endsville1957

Big Mac1969

mack daddy1993

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 2032–4 The proude wordis & þe prise of Pelleus the kyng..The Reprofe and prise of Pollux & Castor.

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 2042 That his message was manast o þo men all And reproued with prise in þere proude yre.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

prisen.⁵

A frequent misreading of press n.¹ (cf. senses 6, 7 and 8 at that entry) in the E.E.T.S. edition of Destruction of Troy ( 39, 1869 and 56, 1874).The same error also affects press v.¹ (cf. senses 9 and 10 at that entry). Cf. prise n.⁴

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > crowded condition or crowding > action of crowding

pressc1300

prisec1540

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 1201 Mony perysshet in þe plase er þe prise [MS. prese] endit.

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 1331 Ercules..Pricket furthe into prise [MS. prese].

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 12048 Eneas egerly..Put hym in prise & profferit to say.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

prisev.

Brit.

/prʌɪz/, U.S.

/praɪz/

Forms: 1600s– prise, 1600s– prize (now chiefly U.S.), 1700s pryse; English regional 1800s praise (Suffolk), 1800s– praize (Yorkshire), 1800s– preaze (Cornwall), 1800s– proise (Middlesex), 1800s– proz (Shropshire, past tense), 1800s– pryze; Scottish pre-1700 pryise, pre-1700 pryse, pre-1700 prysse, 1800s– prise, 1800s– prize.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: prise n.³

Etymology: < prise n.³

a. transitive. To raise or move by force of leverage; to force up or out; to lever open (a door, lid, etc.). rare in the United States except as U.S. regional (southern and south Midland). The usual word in the United States is pry v.²

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > make to go up or cause to rise [verb (transitive)] > raise by mechanical instrument > with a lever or pole

prise1574

underspar1577

coleweigh1652

peise1783

pry1806

pike1850

1574 in Trans. E. Lothian Antiquarian & Field Naturalists' Soc. (1958) 7 79 For berin of the gawillokis to pryse wp the west yet.

1628 in P. H. Brown Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1900) 2nd Ser. II. 596 He [and others]..pryssed and rave up the clouse of the said damme.

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 344 They easily prize up bushes, furses, or broom by the very roots.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xx. 246/1 The Forked end is strucken deep in the ground each side the root and so drawn or prised vp.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 149 The doors were..assailed with sledge-hammers, iron crows [etc.]..with which they prized, heaved, and battered for some time with little effect.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lxiv. 312 Many men..were seen..striving to prize it [sc. the jail door] down, with crowbars.

1897 Pall Mall Mag. June 254 The lock was broken, and the lid bore signs of having been prised.

1937 A. J. Cronin Citadel i. iv. 36 The gangrenous cover had not been disturbed for years but, after a struggle, they prised it up.

1963 A. Lubbock Austral. Roundabout 79 These petrified..bubbles are called ‘nobbies’; and they are prised out..by the opal digger.

1992 Evening News (Edinb.) 20 Apr. 6/2 Prise out the fuse if it's covering one of the terminals.

b. transitive. figurative and in figurative contexts.

ΚΠ

1824 J. Prior Mem. Life Edmund Burke viii. 279 Thus this famous measure..became the lever by which to prize its authors out of office.

1955 Times 20 June 9/5 Their union does not order them to strike, because they would not use the discomfort of the unoffending livestock as a lever to prise higher wages from their employers.

1966 A. MacLean When Eight Bells Toll iii. 67 It was then that Uncle Arthur had prised me from my marine salvage business.

1992 B. Adams Brought to Book 131 I prised James away from telephonic link-up with his mother and we went to Bernard's room.

2003 S. Brown Free Gift Inside! 284 [They] attracted recalcitrant shoppers into the stores and succeeded in prising open nervous parents' pocket books.

a. transitive. U.S. regional (south Midland). To compress (cured tobacco) in a hogshead or box.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > prepare tobacco [verb (transitive)] > pack into box

prise1724

1724 H. Jones Present State Virginia 40 [They] by Degrees prize or press with proper Engines into great Hogsheads.

1766 W. Nelson Let. 25 July in F. Mason John Norton & Sons (1968) 14 I find the complaint of prising stem'd Tobo in too high Condition is become pretty general.

1829 in N. E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 288 I have prised to hogsheads of tobacco and got tow more under prise.

1889 P. A. Bruce Plantation Negro 183 To the moment that the leaf is prized in the hogshead.

1902 U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 60. 17 The leaves..are tied into hands and bulked down for a short time, after which they are ‘prized’ into hogs~heads.

1933 L. C. Gray Hist. Agric. Southern U.S. II. vi. xxxii. 778 The tobacco was ‘prized’ in the hogshead, care being taken that the right degree of moisture was present to permit effective prizing without the product becoming mouldy.

2000 J. L. Nelson Guardship xviii. 171 Bulk tobacco, tobacco shipped loose and not prized into a hogshead, had been strictly prohibited.

†b. transitive. To pack into a small space. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1799 W. Beckford Let. 16 Aug. in J. W. Oliver Life W. Beckford (1932) x. 269 Assure Lady Heard that she shall not be worn to death with seeing Sights,..nor prysed into rumbling Carriages.

Derivatives

ˈprising n.

ΚΠ

1652 Notable & Pleasant Hist. Knights of Blade 10 Their lechery impaires their health, and the Hectorian purchasing, prising and robbing concludes their lives.

1756 W. Alexander State of Process against John Miller 13 The Deponent got the same Wages and no more from Mr. Miller, when employed in prizing, stripping, or otherwise about Tobacco, than he received from other Persons.

1813 S. J. Harrison Let. 19 Mar. in T. Jefferson Papers (2009) Retirement Ser. VI. 25 He was obliged to Exchange a good deal [of tobacco], before it would be fit for prizing.

1891 J. C. Atkinson Last of Giant-killers 166 More hammering and more prising with the gavelocks and crowbars.

1993 M. Bragg Crystal Rooms (BNC) 143 Helen knew that she was winning. The prising loose was under way.

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释义	prisen.¹ Brit. /prʌɪz/, /priːz/, U.S. /praɪz/, /priz/ Forms: Middle English price, Middle English priis, Middle English pris, Middle English prysse, Middle English (1500s Scottish) prys, Middle English 1800s pryse, Middle English 1800s– prise, Middle English–1500s pryce. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French prise; French pris. Etymology: Either < Anglo-Norman and Old French prise action of taking, capturing (c1170 in specific sense ‘taking of the quarry’ in corner prise or corner la prise to give the horn call indicating that the quarry has been taken: see prise n.²), or < Anglo-Norman and Old French pris, past participle of prendre to take, capture (see prend v.; compare prise n.²). Hunting. Now historical and in historical contexts. A blast on a hunting horn indicating that the quarry has been taken. Only in to blow (the) prise, to sound the prise. Formerly also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > signals > call or signal [verb (transitive)] > sound a call to blow (the) prisec1300 strakea1400 to blow the (also a) deathc1425 to blow (also sound, wind, etc.) the (also a) mort1555 to sound the prise1803 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (intransitive)] > sound horn to blow (the) prisec1300 poopc1390 strakea1400 recheatc1400 rechasec1425 to blow the quarryc1560 jeopard1575 to wind the horn1611 to sound the prise1803 horn1874 c1300 Body & Soul (Laud Misc. 108) (1889) 61 (MED) He beden him hontin and blowen, Crien and Bauston and Bewis, Þe ratches þat him were woned te knowen; He scholden sone blowe þe pris. c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 2749 (MED) Tristrem on huntinge rade..He blewe priis as he can, Þre mot oþer mare. c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 99 Þan shuld..who so is grettest of þe hunters, blowe þe pryce at couplyng vp. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 137 Than were they ware of the harte that lay on a grete watir banke, and a brachette bytyng on his throte; and mo othir houndis come aftir; Than kynge Arthure blewe the pryce and dyght the harte. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. xii. 123 And blew the prys triumphall for his [sc. Orodes'] deth. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lii. 177 I can mew a sparhawke, and I can chase the herte and the wyld bore, and blowe the pryce. 1803 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border (ed. 2) III. 389 Sound, merry huntsmen! sound the pryse! 1899 Denton (Maryland) Jrnl. 7 Jan. 1/4 Sometimes in the early morning the horn would sound the prise, but ere forester or keeper could reach the spot the fat buck had been borne away. 1938 T. H. White Sword in Stone xvi. 243 The boar's feet were tied together, a pole was slipped between its legs, and two men hoisted it upon their shoulders. William Twyti stood back, and courteously blew the prise. 1952 Metrop. Mus. Art Bull. 10 207/1 In one scene the stag is at bay, the huntsman blowing the prise to assemble the hunting party. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). prisen.² Brit. /prʌɪz/, /priːz/, U.S. /praɪz/, /priz/ Forms: Middle English price, Middle English priis, Middle English pris, Middle English 1700s pryse, Middle English– prise, 1500s prese, 1500s–1600s 1900s– prize, 1600s pryce (Scottish). Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French prise. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman prese, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French prise (French prise ) action of taking, that which is taken, quarry, (of fish) catch (c1119 in Anglo-Norman), (in hunting) action of taking the quarry (c1170; compare prise n.¹), prisoners of war collectively (c1155), action of taking prisoners of war (c1170), seizure, confiscation (c1176), action of bringing something into one's power (c1176), booty (mid 12th cent.), seizure or capture of property in war (e.g. a city) (13th cent.), prisage (14th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), seizure of goods from dependants for the use of a lord or sovereign, dependants' obligations in this respect (14th cent.), raid, plundering expedition (c1353), capture of a ship, the captured ship (1373 as prinse ; compare prize n.²), dose of medicine (1567), use as noun of feminine of past participle of prendre to take (see prend v.). Compare post-classical Latin prisa seizure of goods for use of lord or sovereign, goods thus seized (from 12th cent. in British sources), goods taken by way of custom (frequently c1100–1448 in British sources; 1254 as priza ). Compare Spanish presa (c1330), Italian presa (12th-13th cent.) Portuguese presa (13th cent.). Compare prize n.², prise n.¹With sense 3 compare French prise d'essai (1812). With sense 5 perhaps compare German Prise small dose or amount (especially of snuff) (18th cent.). 1. The seizure of something by a lord for his own use from his feudal tenants or dependants; the seizure of goods for the sovereign's use; an instance of this. Also: a thing so seized or requisitioned; the right of such seizure. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods prisea1325 seizure1482 disseisin1511 ouster1531 seiser1550 extent1592 prisal1628 sequestration1640 a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) xli. 104 For þat te king ant his ministres of his mainie..makez hoere prises þerease heo passez þoru þe contreie, ant nimez menne godes..biþoute ani paie, ore wel lasse þan þe worz. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 10742 (MED) Sir hubert de boru..Acused was to þe king of mani luþer prise. c1400 Brut (Rawl. B. 171) 257 (MED) Þe Quene Isabel and þe Mortymer had a grete manie of her retenue þat folwede euermore þe Kyngus courte and went and tok þe Kyngus prises for her penyworthes at gode chepe. 1473 Rolls of Parl. VI. 66/1 And that no prises, exactions, nor prestations shal be sette uppon their persones or goodes, otherwise then have be sette uppon theym. c1503 tr. Charter of London in R. Arnold Chron. f. x/2 Y^t the constable of the tour of london make no preses by londe ne by water of vytayle or any other thingis what so euer thei ben of men of y^e forsaid cite. 1621 R. Bolton Statutes Ireland 1 (Act 3 Edw. II) Forasmuch as merchants and the common people of this land are much impoverished and oppressed by the prises of great Lords. 1621 R. Bolton Statutes Ireland 1 (Act 3 Edw. II) That no such prises be henceforth made without ready payment. 1750 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 319 That the king might live of his own without taking unusual prises. 1771 E. Ledwich Antiquitates Sarisburienses 53 The former used to make captures upon the latter of hay, corn, beer, and other things under divers denominations, to wit, Pryse, Tyne of Castle, forrage, &c. 1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. ix. 155 All tallages, fifteenths, and prises levied..in the county. 1911 S. A. Morgan Hist. Parl. Taxation in Eng. iv. 149 The king could still retain his right to levy ancient aids and prises, provided they were what his ancestors were wont to exact. 1965 J. C. Holt Magna Carta 50 At Corbridge the lord's bailiff was forbidden to take prises for his own use except by will of the burgesses. 2002 R. H. Fritze & W. B. Robison Hist. Dict. Late Medieval Eng. 34 A parliamentary statute that attempted to limit abuses of the royal prerogative by Edward I regarding the boundaries of the royal forests and prises, the king's right to take the goods of his subjects for the use of the royal household. 2. A portion taken by the sovereign from goods brought into the realm; a duty levied in lieu of this (cf. prisage n.¹ 1). Also: the right or practice of taking such goods. Chiefly in plural (occasionally with singular agreement). Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > [noun] > on imported goods custom1389 prise1455 aids1523 tariff1592 cocket1612 custom duty1677 indulto1691 ingate1701 parisis1714 inwards1761 customs duty1800 imposition1863 indult1900 1455 Rolls of Parl. V. 293/2 Delyvered to the said Prynce..the said Duchie of Cornewayll..with all manere Libertees..Forfaitures, wrekkes of the See, prises of Wyne, [etc.]. 1467–8 Rolls of Parl. V. 585/a A Tonne of Wyne, to be takyn of oure Pryse within oure Port of Bristowe. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1240/2 Peter de Oriall,..gardian of all the forrest of England, of all the escheats, of all the ports of the sea, and of all the prises of England and Ireland. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Eee4^v/1 Prise..signifieth also a custome due to the King. 1731 H. Crouch Compl. View Brit. Customs (new ed.) Introd. p. vii Prises, or Prisage, was the ancient Duty payable or taken for foreign Commodities imported. 1911 Eng. Hist. Rev. 26 97 In 1303 Edward obtained from an assembly of foreign merchants in return for..certain remissions of old customs and ‘prises’, the right to levy a fresh set of duties from foreigners. 1953 M. Powicke Thirteenth Cent. (1962) xiii. 629 (note) In 1302 the merchants of Bordeaux were allowed to commute prise for a custom of two shillings per tun. †3. A small piece of gold or silver coin taken for assay at the Mint. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > trial of purity or weight > metal kept for trial prise1469 diet1700 1469 in Archaeologia (1806) 15 170 Whenn the seid prises of gold and sylver be made..they shalbe enseled. †4. Heraldry. A bearing on a coat of arms. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] bearing1562 prise1572 formality?1578 charge1599 armorial bearings1610 1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 116^v Thus those prises in coates armoures, which are of many called Fusils, that is to saye Spyndles, may aptly be taken for pillers. †5. The quantity of medicine to be taken at one time; a dose. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > dose of medicine dosis1543 dose1600 dation1657 prise1683 1683 W. Salmon Doron Medicum Pref. They are to be found, together with their certain prizes by the Ounce. Compounds † prise ale n. [compare post-classical Latin cervisia de prisa (1231 in a British source)] Obsolete rare a duty paid to the sovereign by those who sell ale. ΚΠ ?a1600 G. Owen Baronia (1861) 45 Prise ale is certen monye payed by custome used within the said baronye [of Kemeys], of all those that sell ale within the said baronye, burghe or manors aforesaid, vz., vd. for every brewinge, which is due to the lorde there by custome used time out of mynde. prise wine n. [compare post-classical Latin vinum de prisa (1300 in a British source)] wine taken as prisage (prisage n.¹ 1a); cf. prisage wine n. at prisage n.¹ Compounds. ΚΠ 1530 T. More Let. to Wolsey 10 July in P. H. Hore Hist. Wexford (1900) 234 Disturbing the citie of Waterford in the use of a certayn graunt of prize wynys, made and confermed unto theym, as they allegge, by the Kyngs progenitors. 1736 T. Carte Hist. Life Duke Ormonde I. p. xxxvi After he came of age,..she resigned to him all her dower, except her share of the prise wines. 1980 Amer. Jrnl. Legal Hist. 24 29 Other cases apparently decided by the council included disputes involving the loyal towns,..such as the rights to prise wines between Waterford and Ross. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). prisen.³ Brit. /prʌɪz/, U.S. /praɪz/ Forms: late Middle English 1700s– prise, 1500s pryse (Scottish), 1700s– prize. Origin: Probably of multiple origins. Probably partly a borrowing from French. Partly formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: French prise ; prise v. Etymology: In early use probably < Middle French, French prise action of taking or grasping (although this is not attested in this specific sense: see prise n.²); in later use < prise v. Now chiefly regional. 1. An instrument used for prising something; a lever. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lever or crowbar > [noun] lever1297 speke1366 crowa1400 gavelock1497 prisea1500 handspoke1513 porter1538 sway1545 handspike1559 heaver1598 coleweigh1600 handspeek1644 forcer1649 ringer1650 ripping-chisel1659 pinch1685 crow-spike1692 Betty1700 wringer1703 crowbar1748 spike1771 pry1803 jemmy1811 crow-iron1817 dog1825 pinchbar1837 jimmy1848 stick1848 pry bar1872 peiser1873 nail bar1929 cane1930 a1500 (c1400) St. Erkenwald (1977) 70 (MED) Wyȝt werke-men..Putten prises þerto..And were þe lydde neuer so large, þai laide hit by sone. 1541 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 176 Item, ane pryse, with ane turning staf. 1807 J. R. Bedford in Tennessee Hist. Mag. (1919) 5 55 Was grounded on shore—made exertions with the poles—these ineffectual, leaped into the water and with prises forced her [sc. a boat] off. 1895 T. Pinnock Black Country Ann. (E.D.D.) Run, fetch a prise, quick to lift on. 1964 L. E. F. English Newfoundland 34 Prise, a lever. 1999 Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 7 Apr. iii. 16 The Hydes packed tobacco in hogshead barrels, compacted with the tobacco ‘prize’. †2. The action of prising or levering something; an instance of this; (also) leverage. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > [noun] > active mechanical force > ratio of load to force applied > by use of lever purchase1711 prise1751 leverage1830 1751 J. Daniel Narr. Life Astonishing Adventures x. 136 I cut out a vast square piece from the ship's side..and..made room for a bale to slide out, which, by frequent prises with my lever, I easily effected. 1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xvii. 150 Those plumes which so ornament the wings of birds, and give them as it were more prise upon the air. 1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt 88 Is it fanciful to ascribe this curious upward movement of a river-course to the prise given by it, in its enormous stretch in a straight line from north to south, to the diurnal whirl of the earth from west to east? Compounds † prise-beam n. Obsolete rare a lever used in packing tobacco (cf. prise v. 2a). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with other materials > [noun] > with tobacco scaffold1784 prise-beam1800 tobacco-gratera1877 tobacco-cutter1877 tobacco-wheel1877 1800 W. Tatham Hist. & Pract. Ess. Tobacco 52 As all tobacco must be in due case when it is put into the hogshead, so must the prize-beam retain its depressed position until two distinct ends are attained, to wit, that of giving a compact consistency to the cake [etc.]. † prise-bolt n. Obsolete rare a bolt on a gun carriage by which the gun is manoeuvred. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > gun carriage > [noun] > other parts of carriage tail-pin1497 brack1622 head-plate1647 transom1688 prise-bolt1705 bracket1753 bracket-bolt1753 pintle1769 rider1779 trail-plate-eye1828 cleat1834 wheel-guard1860 spade1862 nave-hole1867 chassis1869 turntable1889 gun-crutch1898 trail-spade1904 1705 tr. G. Guillet de Saint-Georges Gentleman's Dict. at Plate The Prise-Plates, are two Plates of Iron on the Cheeks of a Gun-Carriage from the Capesquare to the Centre, through which the Prise Bolts go, and on which the Hand-spike rests, when it poises up the Breech of the Piece. 1762 Gen. Hist. Sieges & Battles VI. 69 The large iron knobs, on the cheeks of a carriage, which keep the handspike steady, are called prise bolts. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1802/2 Prise-bolts, the projecting bolts at the rear of a mortar-bed or garrison gun-carriage under which the handspikes are inserted for training and maneuvering the piece. prise house n. U.S. (now historical) a building housing equipment for pressing and packing tobacco leaves (in quot. 1732 as part of a place name). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places for working with specific materials > place where tobacco is stored or processed > [noun] tobacco house1611 prise house1732 stemmery1859 seasoning room1890 1718 Richmond County (Va.) Misc. Court Rec. Bk. in C. R. Lounsbury Illustr. Gloss. Early Southern Archit. & Landscape (1994) 292 A good large Tobacco house called ye press house.] 1732 Laws of Maryland 5 A Point of Land, known by the Name of Hawkins's Prize House Point. 1744 Joseph Ball Letterbk. in C. R. Lounsbury Illustr. Gloss. Early Southern Archit. & Landscape (1994) 292 The roof of the Prise house, and the shades must be pulled off. 1891 Washington Post 4 Aug. 6/2 Seven large two and three story prize houses have been built and lively times are expected in the tobacco trade here this fall. 2001 R. Kammerer Greenville v. 88 (caption) This old ‘Tobacco Town’ photograph..shows O.L. Joyner's four-story prize house on the left and the Eastern and Greenville Tobacco Warehouses on the right. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † prisen.⁴ Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a borrowing from French. Etymon: French reprise. Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps < -prise (in Anglo-Norman and Middle French reprise reproof, reprimand (c1230 in Old French in this sense, rare: see reprise n.)). Compare prise n.⁵Attested only in the work cited (which has an unusually high proportion of alliterations in p-). Obsolete. rare. Perhaps: reproof; utterance of angry disapproval or rejection. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] telingeOE chastiment?c1225 snapinga1300 snibbinga1300 reproving?1316 undernimminga1325 correctiona1340 threapening1340 admonishingc1350 reproofa1375 scourgingc1374 correptionc1380 repreyningc1390 reprehensiona1413 undertakingc1430 rebuke?a1439 admonition1440 correptingc1449 rebut?c1450 reprehendingc1450 redargution1483 reproval1493 increpation1502 prisec1540 tasking1543 check1588 improof1590 snubbing1600 threap1636 compellation1656 reprovement1675 reprimanding1698 rowing1812 lecturing1861 carpeting1888 eldering1912 woodshedding1940 stick1956 the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being the best > [noun] > best thing or person highesteOE bestOE greatest?c1225 pridec1330 crestc1400 primrosea1450 outrepass1477 A per sea1500 primrose peerless1523 prisec1540 prime1579 surquidry1607 excellency1611 nonsuchc1613 crown jewel1646 top1665 patriarch1700 pièce de résistance1793 number one1825 business1868 resistance piece1870 star1882 mostest1889 koh-i-noor1892 best-ever1905 flagship1933 the end1950 endsville1957 Big Mac1969 mack daddy1993 c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 2032–4 The proude wordis & þe prise of Pelleus the kyng..The Reprofe and prise of Pollux & Castor. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 2042 That his message was manast o þo men all And reproued with prise in þere proude yre. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2019). prisen.⁵ A frequent misreading of press n.¹ (cf. senses 6, 7 and 8 at that entry) in the E.E.T.S. edition of Destruction of Troy ( 39, 1869 and 56, 1874).The same error also affects press v.¹ (cf. senses 9 and 10 at that entry). Cf. prise n.⁴ ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > crowded condition or crowding > action of crowding pressc1300 prisec1540 c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 1201 Mony perysshet in þe plase er þe prise [MS. prese] endit. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 1331 Ercules..Pricket furthe into prise [MS. prese]. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 12048 Eneas egerly..Put hym in prise & profferit to say. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2019). prisev. Brit. /prʌɪz/, U.S. /praɪz/ Forms: 1600s– prise, 1600s– prize (now chiefly U.S.), 1700s pryse; English regional 1800s praise (Suffolk), 1800s– praize (Yorkshire), 1800s– preaze (Cornwall), 1800s– proise (Middlesex), 1800s– proz (Shropshire, past tense), 1800s– pryze; Scottish pre-1700 pryise, pre-1700 pryse, pre-1700 prysse, 1800s– prise, 1800s– prize. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: prise n.³ Etymology: < prise n.³ 1. a. transitive. To raise or move by force of leverage; to force up or out; to lever open (a door, lid, etc.). rare in the United States except as U.S. regional (southern and south Midland). The usual word in the United States is pry v.² ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > make to go up or cause to rise [verb (transitive)] > raise by mechanical instrument > with a lever or pole prise1574 underspar1577 coleweigh1652 peise1783 pry1806 pike1850 1574 in Trans. E. Lothian Antiquarian & Field Naturalists' Soc. (1958) 7 79 For berin of the gawillokis to pryse wp the west yet. 1628 in P. H. Brown Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1900) 2nd Ser. II. 596 He [and others]..pryssed and rave up the clouse of the said damme. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 344 They easily prize up bushes, furses, or broom by the very roots. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xx. 246/1 The Forked end is strucken deep in the ground each side the root and so drawn or prised vp. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 149 The doors were..assailed with sledge-hammers, iron crows [etc.]..with which they prized, heaved, and battered for some time with little effect. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lxiv. 312 Many men..were seen..striving to prize it [sc. the jail door] down, with crowbars. 1897 Pall Mall Mag. June 254 The lock was broken, and the lid bore signs of having been prised. 1937 A. J. Cronin Citadel i. iv. 36 The gangrenous cover had not been disturbed for years but, after a struggle, they prised it up. 1963 A. Lubbock Austral. Roundabout 79 These petrified..bubbles are called ‘nobbies’; and they are prised out..by the opal digger. 1992 Evening News (Edinb.) 20 Apr. 6/2 Prise out the fuse if it's covering one of the terminals. b. transitive. figurative and in figurative contexts. ΚΠ 1824 J. Prior Mem. Life Edmund Burke viii. 279 Thus this famous measure..became the lever by which to prize its authors out of office. 1955 Times 20 June 9/5 Their union does not order them to strike, because they would not use the discomfort of the unoffending livestock as a lever to prise higher wages from their employers. 1966 A. MacLean When Eight Bells Toll iii. 67 It was then that Uncle Arthur had prised me from my marine salvage business. 1992 B. Adams Brought to Book 131 I prised James away from telephonic link-up with his mother and we went to Bernard's room. 2003 S. Brown Free Gift Inside! 284 [They] attracted recalcitrant shoppers into the stores and succeeded in prising open nervous parents' pocket books. 2. a. transitive. U.S. regional (south Midland). To compress (cured tobacco) in a hogshead or box. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > prepare tobacco [verb (transitive)] > pack into box prise1724 1724 H. Jones Present State Virginia 40 [They] by Degrees prize or press with proper Engines into great Hogsheads. 1766 W. Nelson Let. 25 July in F. Mason John Norton & Sons (1968) 14 I find the complaint of prising stem'd Tobo in too high Condition is become pretty general. 1829 in N. E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 288 I have prised to hogsheads of tobacco and got tow more under prise. 1889 P. A. Bruce Plantation Negro 183 To the moment that the leaf is prized in the hogshead. 1902 U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 60. 17 The leaves..are tied into hands and bulked down for a short time, after which they are ‘prized’ into hogs~heads. 1933 L. C. Gray Hist. Agric. Southern U.S. II. vi. xxxii. 778 The tobacco was ‘prized’ in the hogshead, care being taken that the right degree of moisture was present to permit effective prizing without the product becoming mouldy. 2000 J. L. Nelson Guardship xviii. 171 Bulk tobacco, tobacco shipped loose and not prized into a hogshead, had been strictly prohibited. †b. transitive. To pack into a small space. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1799 W. Beckford Let. 16 Aug. in J. W. Oliver Life W. Beckford (1932) x. 269 Assure Lady Heard that she shall not be worn to death with seeing Sights,..nor prysed into rumbling Carriages. Derivatives ˈprising n. ΚΠ 1652 Notable & Pleasant Hist. Knights of Blade 10 Their lechery impaires their health, and the Hectorian purchasing, prising and robbing concludes their lives. 1756 W. Alexander State of Process against John Miller 13 The Deponent got the same Wages and no more from Mr. Miller, when employed in prizing, stripping, or otherwise about Tobacco, than he received from other Persons. 1813 S. J. Harrison Let. 19 Mar. in T. Jefferson Papers (2009) Retirement Ser. VI. 25 He was obliged to Exchange a good deal [of tobacco], before it would be fit for prizing. 1891 J. C. Atkinson Last of Giant-killers 166 More hammering and more prising with the gavelocks and crowbars. 1993 M. Bragg Crystal Rooms (BNC) 143 Helen knew that she was winning. The prising loose was under way. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c1300n.²a1325n.³a1500n.⁴c1540n.⁵c1540v.1574
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