单词 | rim-stock |
释义 | rim-stockn. Now historical. A simple form of calendar, consisting of a block of wood (or less commonly of other material) marked with notches to indicate the days of the week, religious festivals, etc.; a clog-almanac. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] > specific calendars Gregorian Calendarc1275 Julian Calendarc1275 fastia1387 almanacc1392 prognostication1486 shepherd's calendar1506 ephemeris1559 perpetual almanac?1566 perpetual calendar1577 ephemeris1647 primstaff1662 rim-stock1662 parapegma1671 Poor Robin1708 menologium1709 menologion1727 rune-staff1753 Liberian Calendar1754 parapegm1755 timetable1758 prognosticator1779 Hindu calendar1795 Moore's Almanac1806 Moorea1821 numeral1853 Advent calendar1867 paddywhack almanac1875 paddy1876 Islamic calendar1912 1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura iii. 29 Danes, and Norvegians had..their Runic writings, or engraven Letters, as in their Rimstoc or Primstaf. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. x. 423 These Symbols..have a more rational orderly texture than the Runæ upon the Danish Rimestocks, or the Swedish or Norwegian Primstaves. 1819 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia (new ed.) at Runic Runic staffs..were called, in the North, rim-stocks and prim-staffs. 1859 B. B. Woodward Hist. Wales (new ed.) xxxi. 549 The Rim-stocks, or Rune-stocks ( as the ‘Clog-Almanacs’ were called,) of the ‘Black Pagans’. 1987 E. Thorsson Runelore i. iv. 57 The runes also were used in the construction of prim-staves or rim-stocks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1662 |
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