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单词 prick up
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to prick up
18. transitive. Plastering. to prick up: to scratch or score the surface of (a first coat of plaster) so as to make a hold for the next coat; (hence) to apply (a first coat of plaster) which is afterwards so scored. Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > clad or cover [verb (transitive)] > plaster > processes involved in plastering
litter1559
gauge1686
to prick up1779
key1837
stab1846
1779 [implied in: Ld. Mahon in Philos. Trans. 1778 (Royal Soc.) 68 887 Common coarse lime and hair (such as generally serves for the pricking-up-coat in plastering). (at pricking-up n. 1)].
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 373 A coat of plaster, which is pricked-up for the floated work.
1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 122/1 The wall is first pricked up with a coat of lime and hair.
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to prick up
a. intransitive. to prick up: to rise or stand erect; to point or stick up; (figurative, with reference to the ears) to become attentive or alert.
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the world > space > relative position > vertical position > be vertical [verb (intransitive)] > be or become upright
standOE
to stand upc1225
upstandc1275
risea1382
redress1480
stem1577
to prick up1657
upend1896
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > notice, observation > take note, observe [verb (intransitive)] > give ear, hearken > of the ears
to prick up1887
1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ v. 55 The full ear [of corn] hangs the head, when the empty pricks up.
1763 J. Clubbe Physiognomy in Misc. Tracts (1770) I. 22 Their heads were both under water, but that the tips of their ears just pricked up above it.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) As't gers pricks up.
1887 W. Besant World Went xv His ears..prick up at the sound of a fiddle.
1905 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 321/2 The spires of churches are to be seen pricking up through the greenery.
1944 D. Welch In Youth is Pleasure ii. 41 He remembered flicking the little wheel [of a cigarette-lighter] and watching the flame prick up.
1997 J. Owen Camden Girls 158 The deejay executes a particularly wicked mix and Laura's ears prick up.
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