单词 | rinding |
释义 | rindingn. The action of removing the rind from a tree, fruit, piece of pork, etc. Cf. rind v.1The meaning in quot. a1425 is unclear. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun] > stripping or uncovering so as to leave bare > of skin, bark, husk, etc. > of bark rindinga1425 barking1545 disbarking1601 excortication1664 debarking1742 decortication1816 excoriation1830 a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 12 v Carpotim, rynding. 1446 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 82 Item, resyvyd for ryndyn of the oke, xiiij d. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Escorcement, a barking of trees, a pilling, a rinding. 1621 E. Winne Let. to G. Caluert 9 The rinding of Trees may be prohibited. 1775 G. Cartwright Jrnl. Resid. Coast Labrador 3 Apr. (1792) II. 59 A man who is acquainted with the nature of these animals [sc. porcupines], will seldom miss them when the snow is on the ground, if he can but hit upon the rinding of that winter. 1797 Encycl. Brit. IV. 309/2 The very young trees are not fit for rinding. 1849 A. E. Knox Ornith. Rambles Sussex 212 The operation of ‘rinding’ cannot be attempted until the sap has begun to flow. 1905 Bull. Imperial Inst. 3 272 Rinding is effected by making a clean cut round the trunk of the tree at its base. 1918 Federal Reporter 251 628 Nor are we convinced by the fact that appellee's rinding knife initiates the slicing act. 1918 Amer. Jrnl. Pharmacy 90 189 The rinding should be done immediately in order to get the greatest quantity of [orange] oil. 1943 P. T. Ziegler Meat We Eat (ed. 2) iv. 41 There is no messing around with hot water, no rinding of pork fat for rendering. 2006 APT Bull. 37 15/3 The backbreaking and dangerous work of rinding, or removing the bark by hand with axes. Compounds rinding-bird n. [compare also English regional rind-bird (recorded in Eng. Dial. Dict. from Sussex in the 20th cent. in this sense)] English regional (Sussex) (now rare) the wryneck, Jynx torquilla. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > jynx torquilla (wryneck) wryneck1585 jynxa1657 yunx1694 barley-bird1766 long tongue1822 cuckoo's mate1831 snake-bird1831 pea-bird1838 writheneck1840 rinding-bird1849 weet-bird1863 mackerel bird1879 felling bird1883 turkey-bird1885 1849 A. E. Knox Ornith. Rambles Sussex 212 Wryneck, Yunx torquilla. Provincial, Rinding Bird. One of the few local epithets worth recording. So termed in many parts of Sussex from its appearance in the spring being supposed to indicate the proper time for felling the oak trees, and removing the bark or rind from the trunks and branches. 1893 D. Jordan With Woodlanders & By Tide i. 19 The wryneck, or cuckoo's mate, or the rinding bird, as he is called by the bark-strippers or ‘bark flayers’, makes his pee-pee-peet heard in spring. c1924 M. Woodward How to enjoy Countryside iv. 36 Rinding-bird is a significant name... The name enshrines the notion that the wryneck appears in the spring at the proper time for felling trees, and rinding the bark. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1425 |
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