单词 | pullishee |
释义 | pullisheen. Scottish. Originally: †a pulley (obsolete). In later use: an apparatus consisting of a pole with a pulley and rope attached, used to hang clothes out of a window to dry. Cf. pulley n.1 4. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > tackle > pulley winchc1050 sheave1336 pulley1357 trice1357 truckle1417 shiver1485 trace-wheel1519 truckle-wheel1533 pullace1545 pullishee1635 wince1688 trispast1706 block-pulley1864 1635 in L. B. Taylor Aberdeen Shore Work Accts. (1972) 202 For the pelische to the crane ane new bushe and macking the bent new. 1667 in L. B. Taylor Aberdeen Shore Work Accts. (1972) 544 For mending the pillishoe of the crane and 2 fadome towes therto. 1704 Rothes MSS For a poleshie to the burds cage..10s. 1728 A. Ramsay Epist. to W. Starrat 19 Pullisees [1728 pullieses] Can lift on highest roofs the greatest trees. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Pair ‘A pair o' pullisees’, a complete tackle of pullies. 1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xix. 280 Having fastened a kinch of ropes beneath her oxters, I let her slide down..by way of a pillyshee. a1905 H. E. Fraser in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1905) VII. Suppl. 159/1 [Inverness] Polly-shee, an upright pole to which is attached a block and rope, fixed to a window, used for drying clothes in Dundee. 1929 F. Grierson Haunting Edinb. i. 1 The air is a-flutter with the washing that hangs from the pullishees, instruments not unlike gallows. 1963 D. Phillips Wiselike Ned 13 Pittin' ur father's shirt oot on the puhllashee. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1635 |
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