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单词 scrog
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scrogn.

Brit. /skrɒɡ/, U.S. /skrɑɡ/, Scottish English /skrɔɡ/
Forms: Middle English skrogg, Middle English scroge, 1600s skrog, 1500s– scrog(g.
Etymology: Apparently related to scrag n.2; compare shrog n.
Chiefly Scottish and northern.
1.
a. A stunted bush; usually plural, brushwood, underwood.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > brushwood, scrub, or underwood
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brushetc1380
scroga1400
bushailec1400
frithing1429
brushal1430
brushc1440
ronec1440
thevec1440
garsil1483
shroga1500
cablish1594
south-bois1598
undergrowth1600
frith1605
hand timber1664
subbois1664
urith1671
brushwood1732
bush-wood1771
underbrush1775
slop1784
woodiness1796
scrub1805
shag1836
chaparral1845
underbush1849
underscrub1870
sand-brush1871
buck-brush1874
bush1879
horizontal scrub1888
tangle-wood1894
shin-tangle1905
a1400 Morte Arth. 1641 Discoueres now sekerly skrogges and other, That no skathelle in the skroggez skorne vs here~aftyre.
1483 Cath. Angl. 326/1 A Scroge; vbi A buske.
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid ix. Prol. 37 Full litill it wald delite To write of scroggis, broym, haddir, or rammale.
1615 W. Lawson Country Housewifes Garden (1626) 32 What an infinite number of bushes, shrubs, and skrogs of hazels, thornes, and other profitable wood.
1719 A. Ramsay 3rd Answer to Hamilton 18 Yet sometimes leave the Riggs and Bog, Your Howms, and Braes and shady Scrog.
1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 6 568 I have gathered nuts from the scrogs of Tynron.
1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xi. 118 In a bit scrog of wood by east of Silvermills.
b. Heraldry. A branch of a tree: a blazon sometimes used by Scottish heralds.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of vegetation > [noun] > other vegetation
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sengreenc1550
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sag-spear1688
sedge1688
grain-tree1780
pea-rice1780
scrog1780
1780 J. Edmondson Compl. Body Heraldry II. (Gloss.) Scrogs, the term used by the Scots in blazoning a small branch of a tree.
1828–40 W. Berry Encycl. Her. II. Scrogie, or Scroggie, az. a chev. or, betw. two scrogs, or starved branches, in chief, and a man's heart in base, ar.
1869 J. E. Cussans Handbk. Heraldry (rev. ed.) vi. 98 Amongst Scotch Heralds a Branch is termed a SCROG.
2.
a. The blackthorn.
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1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 61 Scrogs; Blackthorn.
b. The crab-apple tree.
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1853 [see scrog-apple n. at Compounds].

Compounds

General attributive.
scrog-apple n.
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1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 79 Pyrus Malus..Crab~apple: Scrogs or Scrog-apple.
scrog-branch n.
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1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. x. 246 ‘Scroggie Touchwood, if you please,’ said the senior; ‘the scrog branch first, for it must become rotten ere it become touchwood.’
scrog-bush n.
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1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 288 The kingis body is layd on a horse, and twa myles frome the castell castne in a scrogg buss.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. v. 128 He got a handsome piece of parchment, blazoned with a white lion for Mowbray, to be borne quarterly, with three stunted or scrog-bushes for Scrogie, and became thenceforth Mr Scrogie Mowbray.
scrog-tree n.
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1887 R. M. Calder in Minstrelsy of Merse (1893) 259 The scrogg tree in the meadow.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

scrogv.

/skrɒɡ/
Etymology: < scrog n.
dialect.
transitive. To cut with a hook.
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1847 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 ii. 282 Beans are either pulled by women or cut with a hook, ‘scrogged’.
1893 in H. T. Cozens-Hardy Broad Norfolk (Eastern Daily Press) 84 Scrog, to cut field beans with a sickle or hook.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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