单词 | scray |
释义 | scrayn.1 The common tern, Sterna hirundo. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Sterna (tern) > sterna hirundo (common tern) scray1668 spur1676 kirmew1694 pictarne1710 pirr maw1744 tarrock1774 pictarnie1784 medrick1832 shear-tail1885 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. v. §4. 155 Sea-swallow, Scray. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 353 In other places of England they are called Scrays. 1813 G. Montagu Suppl. Ornithol. Dict. at Tern—Common Rittock or Rippock, Spurre, Scraye. 1852 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds V. 638. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). scrayn.2 dialect. A bush. ΚΠ c1650 Robin Hood & Butcher 14 in Percy Folio MS. I. 20 Robin he marcht in the greene forrest, vnder the greenwood scray. 1869 E. Peacock in Once a Week 27 Mar. 230 The thorn scray grows at the horn of the river. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2018). scrayn.3 dialect. = scraw n.3 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 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.11668n.2c1650n.31791 |
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