单词 | rickling |
释义 | † ricklingn.1 English regional (northern). Obsolete. rare. A rattling or clattering noise. Cf. rickle n.2 ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] rickling1611 bicker1870 chuttering1938 chutter1951 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Grillottement, a ringing, rickling, ratling, or crackling. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2019). ricklingn.2 Scottish, Irish English, and English regional (northern). The action of rickle v.2 ΚΠ 1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. VI. 104 There is a method of preserving corn, peculiar to this part of the country, called Rickling. 1842 S. C. Hall & A. M. Hall Ireland II. 263 The fourth operation [in peat-making] is rickling. 1863 Belfast News-letter 10 Dec. 4/4 Spreading or rickling to prepare for the scutcher. 1963 in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. 431/2 [Wigtownshire] Rickling was rare; the peat was usually taken home and stacked when the fittins were dry. 1989 B. Hill Women, Work & Sexual Politics (1994) vii. 114 The heaping of the turfs into small piles..was also the work of the women and children, and after a further ten days it was they who did the ‘rickling’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † ricklingadj. Scottish and English regional (Lancashire). Obsolete. rare. That rattles or clatters; that makes a rattling sound. ΚΠ 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xlv. 366 He..went aside, and ratling the Bladder, took a huge Delight in the Melody of the rickling, crackling noise of the Pease. 1775 J. Whitaker Hist. Manch. II. 315 Rhugl groen, a child's rattle, a rickling sort of instrument made by putting stones into a dried or undressed skin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.11611n.21793adj.1693 |
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