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单词 setting-stick
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setting-stickn.

1. A stick used for making holes for ‘setting’ or planting. Now dialect.
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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.
2. A rod used for stiffening the plaits or ‘sets’ of ruffs, a poking-stick. Obsolete.
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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.
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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).
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