单词 | scrab-tree |
释义 | > as lemmasscrab-tree The crab or wild apple = crab n.2 Also attributive, as scrab-apple, scrab-tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > crab-apple wood-applec1000 wood crab14.. crabc1450 scrab1467 wilding1526 choke-apple1600 crab-apple1712 cherry-apple1858 Siberian crab1858 souring1866 1467–8 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 92 Pro 11 bus. de Scrabbez emp. pro verius inde fiend., 22d. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. iii. 18 Braid trunschouris dyd thai fyll..Wyth wyld scrabbis and wther frutis large. 1528–9 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 163 Scrabstre medow. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 47 Malus Sylvestris in Englyshe in the Southe countre, a Crab tre, in ye North countre a Scrabtre. 1587 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 157 iiij mells for brusing of skrabbes, 6d. 1595 A. Duncan Appendix Etymologiae: Index in Latinae Grammaticae Vnedo, fructus arbuti, a scrab aple. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Scrab-apple. < as lemmas |
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