单词 | setting-stick |
释义 | setting-stickn. 1. A stick used for making holes for ‘setting’ or planting. Now dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > dibber dibblec1450 planting stick1552 setting-stick1553 thivel1691 dibber1736 kippeen1830 dibbler1847 1553 J. Withals Shorte Dict. f. 20/2 A dibell or settinge sticke, pastinum. 1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 233 Plant them with the Setting-stick, or dibber. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ vii. 104 Make the holes with an ordinary Setting-stick. 1793 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 5 54 The plant is then to be planted with a setting-stick so that the upper part of the root shall appear about half an inch out of the ground. 1818 W. Cobbett Year's Resid. U.S.A. i. ii. 99 A setting-stick, which should be the top of a spade handle cut off, about ten inches below the eye. 1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Setting-stick, a short pointed stick, used for planting cabbages. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > pressing or ironing > ironing or pressing implements pressing iron1343 cold press1552 setting-stick?1578 putter1583 putting stick1583 poking-stick1592 pooter1596 poting stick1600 poker1604 goose1606 poking-iron?1606 iron1613 smoothing-iron1627 steel1638 box iron1640 smoothing-boxa1684 press iron1695 ironing board1721 sad iron1759 ironing blanket1774 ironing table1778 flat-iron1810 sleeve-board1826 ironer1833 Italian iron1833 press-board1849 ironing machine1851 goffering-iron1861 skirt-board1861 goffer1865 trouser press1880 ironing board cover1886 trouser presser1888 electric iron1890 press cloth1918 press-pad1924 tie press1926 steam-iron1951 pressing board1969 ?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 47 Marshalld in good order: wyth a setting stik, & stoout [printed stroout], ye euery ruf stood vp like a wafer. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. F2v They haue also another instrument called a setting sticke,..and with this..they set their ruffes. 1615 E. Howes Stow's Chron. 948/2 About the sixteenth yeere of the Queene, began the making of steele poking-stickes, and vntill that time all Lawndresses vsed setting stickes, made of wood, or bone. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. ii. ii. iii. 568 Pots, glasses, oyntments, irons, combes, bodkins, setting stickes. 3. A composing-stick. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > composing-stick stick1683 composing-stick1686 setting-stick1875 1875 J. Southward Dict. Typogr. (ed. 2) 123. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1553 |
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