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单词 ruet
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ruetn.

Forms: Middle English reuet, Middle English rewet, Middle English rowet, Middle English ruet, Middle English ruett, Middle English ruwet, Middle English rwet, Middle English ryuet, Middle English rywett, 1500s rivette.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French ruet.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman ruet, ruhet curved trumpet, clarion (13th cent.), of uncertain origin; perhaps a figurative use of Anglo-Norman and Old French roet , literally ‘little wheel’ (see rewet n.), with allusion to the rounded shape of the horn.Possibly attested earlier in a surname, although this may show a different word: 1366 in J. P. Rylands Exchequer Lay Subsidy Roll R. de Shireburn & J. de Radcliffe (1896) 110 Ricardus Shakerewet.
Obsolete.
A type of early wind instrument, probably a small horn or trumpet. Hence humorously: the anus.
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earth horn?a1400
oliphantc1400
ruetc1400
buck-hornc1550
stock-horn1597
bell-horna1640
sea-cornet1653
dudeen?1790
carnyx1810
shofar1833
wonder-horn1864
handhorn1871
post-horn1881
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 1637 (MED) He..sett a ruet to his mouþe..Alle..abouten hym comen flyngyng.
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 3695 A litel ruet [Linc. Inn ruwet] a-loude he blewe.
c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. v. 190 Glotoun..pisside a potel..And bleuȝ þe rounde ryuet [c1390 Vernon ruwet, a1425 Wales 733B ruet, a1425 Linc. Inn rewet, a1450 Rawl. rowet; c1400 C. rywett] at þe riggebones ende.
c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 72 (MED) Ther byn diuers maners of hornes, þat is to say, vngles, grete abotes, huntes hornes, Ruettis, smale forsters hornes, and mene hornes of ii maners.
c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 5987 (MED) Ector bar a litel ruet, Vnto his mouth his horn he set, Twyes or thries ther-In he blew..his men..come to him.
c1580 tr. Bugbears i. ii, in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1897) 98 Stope downe a low & kisse my round rivette.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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