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单词 scrin
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scrinn.

Brit. /skrɪn/, U.S. /skrɪn/
Forms: 1700s– scrin, 1800s schrin, 1800s schrine, 1800s scrinn, 1800s skrin.
Origin: Of uncertain origin.
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps related to Middle Dutch schrinde, schrunde (recorded in Kiliaan (1588) as obsolete), Middle Low German schrinde, German Schrunde (Old High German scrunta), all in sense ‘fissure, crack’, respectively < Middle Dutch scrinden (Dutch (with added prefix) verschrinden), Middle Low German schrinden, German (now regional: Bavaria) schrinden (Middle High German schrinden, Old High German scrintan), all in senses ‘to split, to crack, to burst’; further etymology uncertain.
Mining (English regional (northern and midlands)). Now rare.
A small vein of an ore or mineral. Also: a rock cleft in which such a vein may be found.
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?c1675 Instr. for Answer in Duchy R. Wilson (D.R.O.: D7676/BagC/702/3/60) Att the Scrin veyne..hee this Defendt..came to haue a 4th parte.
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. D4 In Scrins they are usually made by Choaking in long Stones between the two Sides.
1802 J. Mawe Mineral. of Derbyshire iv. 50 R is a small rake, or cross vein, or scrin, called Rock Pipe.
1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 65 Small (lead) veins, usually called strings, or scrins, often extend from the rake.
1836 R. Furness Astrologer i, in Wks. (1858) 135 In shaft, and scrinn, broad-rake, flatt, pipe, and vein, His mode of timbering shew'd all others mean.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 173 Scrin, or Skrin, Derb., a small subordinate vein.
1908 Trans. Inst. Mining Engineers 1907–8 35 512 East of the river, a little scrin of calcite was found to run just behind the wall-face.
2005 S. Timberlake & A. D. Kidd in S. Timberlake & A. J. N. W. Prag Archaeol. Alderley Edge 96/1 A trench dug to investigate a second-century AD field wall located a small buried ‘scrin’ or opencast.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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