单词 | scraw |
释义 | † scrawn.1 northern. Obsolete. A scroll or tag of parchment or leather. ΚΠ 1483 Cath. Angl. 325/2 A Scrawe.., cedula. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxiii. 304 How, felowse, se ye not yond skraw? It is writen yonder within a thraw. a1641 H. Spelman Glossarium (1664) 459 Pictatium est epistola brevis & modica; vel schedula de membrana excisa; vel illa particula corii, quæ soleæ repeciatæ insuta est... Anglicè A scraw, or a speck, or a clout of a shoo. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). scrawn.2 dialect. (Anglo-Irish, Sc., Manx.) 1. A turf used for covering the roof of a hovel beneath the thatch, or for burning. ΚΠ 1735 J. Swift Humble Addr. to Parl. in Wks. IV. 240 That odious Custom..of cutting Scraws, (as they call them) which is flaying off the green Surface of the Ground, to cover their Cabbins; or make up their Ditches. 1823 Ann. Reg., Chron. 37 Witness dug down, and on the rim of the ground got a scraw, under which he discovered a body stark naked. 1894 H. Caine Manxman i. iv. 19 Fixing her hazy eyes on the scraas under the thatch. ΚΠ 1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 120 This Bog is generally covered over with a Scraw, or Scurff of mossy Grass. 1820 M. Edgeworth Mem. R. L. Edgeworth II. 316 A slight surface of peat heath or grass, called by the common people a shaking scraw. Compounds scraw-spade; †scraw-built adj. ΚΠ 1789 D. Davidson Thoughts Seasons 42 Down frae the scra-built shed the swallows pop. 1830 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry II. 157 A scraw-spade is an instrument resembling the letter T, with an iron plate at the lower end, considerably bent, and well adapted for the purpose for which it is intended [cutting sods]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † scrawn.3 Obsolete. A frame upon which textile fabrics are hung to dry. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > other processes > equipment for comb1398 scrawc1563 scray1791 plaiting machine1813 canroy1836 needle-board1879 serigraph1881 ager1884 thread-counter1909 c1563 Churchwardens' Accts. St. Dunstan's, Canterb. (MS) Item solde [a] skralle for a Towell. 1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing I. ii. ii. ii. 161 A kind of broad ladder..called a scraw or scray, on which the fleece is drained. 1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 192 In dyeing wool in the fleece, a kind of broad ladder with very close rounds, called by the Dyers of this country, a ‘scraw’ or ‘scray’ is used. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † scrawv. Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To clear the throat, to ‘hawk’. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > have respiratory spasm [verb (intransitive)] > cough > to clear throat reacheOE roughOE yeska1522 retch1534 hawk1582 hough1600 scraw1656 clear1881 hoick1926 1656 [see scrawing n. at Derivatives]. DerivativesΚΠ 1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 38 If it come forth by spitting alone, it proceeds from the gums; if by scrawing from the Throat [etc.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.11483n.21735n.3c1563v.1656 |
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