单词 | scuppet |
释义 | scuppetn. Obsolete exc. dialect. A spade used for trenching and in making ditches; also, a similar instrument used for turning hops while drying. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > trenching tool scuppet1485 trenching-knife?1518 trenching-tool1779 trenching-spade1866 trenching-fork1875 the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > brewing > [noun] > utensils for hop-drying oastcloth1388 oast-hair1562 beguel1737 hog1848 scuppet1892 1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 40 Shovilles shodde..xxiiij, Scopettes..xij. 1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 16v Sharpe cutting spade, for the deuiding of mow, with skuppat and skauel, that marsh men alow. 1764 Museum Rusticum 2 194 Help the water out of the ruts with scoops or skippets. 1843 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 4 ii. 582 In this marsh I limed 120 rods of bank during the summer with unslacked lime, and in the winter it might have been moved with a barn scuppet. 1892 Auction Catal. Farm Sale (Kent) Hop scuppet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021). scuppetv. Obsolete exc. dialect. transitive. To shovel (out, away). Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > by a ladle, shovel, etc. ladec950 keach1387 shovelc1440 scuppet1599 spoon1715 ladle1859 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 28 Our mitred Archpatriarch..scuppets not his benificence into their mouthes with such freshwater facility as M. Ascham..would imply. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 77 Vain man, can he possibly hope to scoppet it out so fast as it fills. 1837 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 37 I take a spade, and scuppet away the snow from the footpaths. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1485v.1599 |
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