单词 | scrog |
释义 | scrogn. Chiefly Scottish and northern. 1. a. A stunted bush; usually plural, brushwood, underwood. ΘΚΠ 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 ronea1300 underwooda1325 rammel1338 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. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of vegetation > [noun] > other vegetation pease ricea1325 garbc1460 gourd1513 sengreenc1550 orme1688 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. ΚΠ 1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 61 Scrogs; Blackthorn. b. The crab-apple tree. ΚΠ 1853 [see scrog-apple n. at Compounds]. Compounds General attributive. scrog-apple n. ΚΠ 1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 79 Pyrus Malus..Crab~apple: Scrogs or Scrog-apple. scrog-branch n. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. dialect. transitive. To cut with a hook. ΚΠ 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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