单词 | selvage |
释义 | selvageselvedgen. 1. a. The edge of a piece of woven material finished in such a manner as to prevent the ravelling out of the weft. Also, a narrow strip or list at the edge of a web of cloth, which is not finished like the rest of the cloth, being intended to be cut off or covered by the seam when the material is made up. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [noun] > border, edge, or selvage of liser1377 listing14.. list1433 stoothc1440 selvagea1475 selvaging1611 forel1691 a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 657 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 321 Þis euwer schalle hele his lordes borde, With dowbulle napere at on bare worde: The seluage to þo lordes syde with-inne. 1537 Bible (Matthew's) Exod. xxvi. 4 Then shalt thou make loupes of Jacyncte coloure, a longe by the edge of the one curtayne euen in the seluege of the couplinge courtayne. 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 44/1 Nether must they [sc. bandages] have any silvages. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 9 The two edges or silvages. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Clear Starching The two Selvages put together, then the Ends together, and wash it the Way the Selvage goes, to prevent the Fraying. 1878 A. Barlow Hist. & Princ. Weaving 198 The application of gauze to the formation of selvages may now be readily understood. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 466/1 These prongs come in contact with the weft thread between the selvedge of the web and the shuttle box. b. transferred. A marginal tract, border, edge. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] > part near the edges or borders sidec1300 suburbc1384 confines1548 skirt1566 purlieus1577 outskirta1599 selvage1650 skirting1764 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. ii. 34 Thus though for his disobedience forbidden the entrance of the land of Canaan, yet he came to the selvedge or out-skirt thereof. 1663 G. Mackenzie Religio Stoici 149 It should not have been thrust out upon the selvage and border of time. 1698 J. Petiver in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 321 The Seed..of a brown Colour, and hem'd about with a rusty colour'd List or Selvedge. 1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1857) xiii. 292 The population..now exists as a miserable selvedge. a1861 A. H. Clough Dipsychus ii. iv, in Lett. & Remains (1865) 183 This narrow interspace, this marge, This list and selvage of a glorious time. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xi. 119 I..threaded through the midst of it [sc. the wood], and returned to the west selvage. c. Tin-plating. = list n.3 7d. ΚΠ 1834 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal III. 37 There is always..a list or selvage of tin on the lower edge of every plate... When the list is melted..the boy takes out the plate. d. A waste strip on either side of a piece of wall-paper. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > wallcovering > [noun] > wall-paper > specific parts of selvage1901 1901 J. Black Illustr. Carpenter & Builder Ser.: Home Handicrafts 40 The handy man first cuts the salvage from all his paper on the same side, and then cuts his paper into lengths. 1904 A. Geikie Sc. Reminisc. xi. 295 The paper had been stuck on the walls just as it came, without the selvages being cut off. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > bandage > [noun] swathec1050 blood benda1250 blood bandc1300 bondc1384 whip1504 trusser1519 swath-band1556 swaddlea1569 winding band1582 deligature1583 ligation1598 bandage1599 fettle1599 ligament1599 selvage1599 swathe1615 swaddlings1623 anadesm1658 fasciation1658 girt1676 platysma1684 flannels1723 fillet1802 sealing1862 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 102/2 Take two peeces of silvadge, and..tye him therwith above his knees as stiffely as is possible. 3. An ornamental border or edging. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > ornamental trimmings > [noun] > bordering or edging fasc950 wloc950 hemc1000 hemminga1300 borderc1374 mill1388 purfling1388 orphrey?a1425 wainc1440 millc1450 selvage1481 edge1502 bordering1530 screed1788 German hemming1838 1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 467 Item, for xxiiij. ellys of sultviche to the same coverlett, the elne iiij.d. summa viij.s. 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid xii. Prol. 16 As fresch Aurora.., Ischit of hir safron bed..In crammysin cled and granit violat, With sanguyne cape, the selvage purpurat. 1827–35 N. P. Willis David's Grief 20 The golden selvedge of his robe was heard Sweeping the marble pavement. 4. Nautical and Military. = selvagee n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > rope, cord, or line > types of warp1296 sewing-rope1336 viring-rope1336 wardrope1338 bast1357 breast rope1412 balk-line1506 waterline1626 shank1706 selvage1711 shroud hawser1744 white line1747 selvagee1750 cringle1787 staple-rope1794 bracing-rope1827 selvage-stropc1860 soga1860 four-cant1867 toggle-lanyard1874 maguey1908 snorter1950 snotter1950 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > lashings, seizings, or securing ropes > a rope used for stopper1636 lanyard1669 lasher1669 racking1704 selvage1711 selvagee1750 gilguy1833 tier1844 stop1846 selvage-stropc1860 1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 133 Salvages for Shrowds, worn. 1780 Falconer's Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Selvage, a sort of hank or skein of rope-yarn tied together at several distances. It is used to fasten round any rope, as a shroud or stay, so that a tackle may be hooked in it, to extend the said shroud or stay, which is called setting it up. 1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 318 A block..attached to a selvage, answers the same purpose. 5. a. Mining. A thin layer of clayey or earthy matter surrounding a metalliferous vein. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > features of stratum or vein > [noun] > material surrounding blinds1674 wall1728 steeking1789 sticking1789 salband1811 selvage1897 1897 T. H. Holland in Rec. Geol. Surv. India XXX. 18 Each group is represented by microcrystalline and hemicrystalline types occurring either as thin veins, or as selvages to larger masses. 1925 H. L. Mencken Let. 27 May in H. L. Mencken & S. Haardt Mencken & Sara (1987) 61 The vein, which has its selvages entire and close. b. Geology. An alteration zone at the edge of a rock mass. ΚΠ 1934 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 90 338 Sillimanite has been abundantly developed alongside some quartz veins... This paragenesis forms a selvedge between quartz veins and the biotite-muscovite-schist. 1958 Econ. Geol. LIII. 292 Selvages of hydrothermal alteration of quartz monzonite along the contacts of some larger aplite-pegmatite bodies. 1979 Nature 5 Apr. 511/2 That some basic dykes have conspicuous charnockite selvedges might indicate metasomatic interchange between acid and basic rocks as a primary cause of the conversion, except that many dykes..have no such marginal alteration. 1981 Cambr. Encycl. Earth Sci. 211/1 The majority of M[id-]O[cean]R[idge]B[asalt] lavas have a pillow form..and glass selvages—characteristics of rapid cooling in seawater. 6. (See quot. 1875.) ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Selvage (Locksmithing), the edge-plate of a lock through which the bolt shoots. Compounds C1. General attributive. selvage-thread n. ΚΠ 1863 J. Watson Theory & Pract. Weaving 161 They allow the pins to fall into position at the selvage, taking hold of the selvage threads. C2. selvage-motion n. ? the motion of a shuttle in forming a selvage. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > moving or driving of shuttle > in forming selvage selvage-motion1893 1893 J. T. Taylor Cotton Weaving 98 Another kind of selvedge motion is that used for producing a plain selvedge on a loom weaving satteens with tappets. selvage-protector n. (see quot. 1863). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > other parts studdlelOE staff1338 trendle14.. trindle1483 cylinder?a1560 harness1572 mail1731 mounture1731 leaf1807 march1807 dropbox1823 neck-twine1827 mounting1835 shaft1839 Jack1848 selvage-protector1863 serpent1878 take-up motiona1884 swell1894 1863 J. Watson Theory & Pract. Weaving 160 The selvage protector..to prevent the warp yarn from being broken by the weft shot drawing it too tightly. selvage-strop n. (sense 4). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > rope, cord, or line > types of warp1296 sewing-rope1336 viring-rope1336 wardrope1338 bast1357 breast rope1412 balk-line1506 waterline1626 shank1706 selvage1711 shroud hawser1744 white line1747 selvagee1750 cringle1787 staple-rope1794 bracing-rope1827 selvage-stropc1860 soga1860 four-cant1867 toggle-lanyard1874 maguey1908 snorter1950 snotter1950 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > lashings, seizings, or securing ropes > a rope used for stopper1636 lanyard1669 lasher1669 racking1704 selvage1711 selvagee1750 gilguy1833 tier1844 stop1846 selvage-stropc1860 c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 33 Put on the selvage strop over the parcelling, and hook the single block of the luff tackle to both parts of the selvage. selvage-way adv. in a direction parallel to the selvage. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [adverb] > parallel to selvage selvage-way1875 1875 L. S. Floyer Plain Needlework 13 Half a yard should be snipped selvage-way into twelve portions. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). selvageselvedgev. transitive. To form a boundary or edging to. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > form the edge of [verb (transitive)] skirt1602 inverge1612 edge1644 surround1688 selvage1704 skirt1776 outskirt1811 1704 J. Petiver Gazophylacii IV. 55 This has no blue above, but selvidg'd with Golden Eye-like Spots. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 37 Where the stream is selvaged with sedges, or the pond edged with shrubby trees. 1849 D. Jerrold Man of Money xi One of the Primrose Places to be found selvaging London. 1899 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 180 Where the little grey towns cluster Deep in the hills or selvedging the sea. Derivatives ˈselvaged adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [adjective] > having an edge or border bordered1509 brerded1535 rimmed1608 pretexted1647 labrous1656 labrose1727 marginated1727 selvaged1750 marginate1777 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 150 The outside is divided into five selvaged seams, the inside containing three blackish seeds. ˈselvaging n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [noun] > border, edge, or selvage of liser1377 listing14.. list1433 stoothc1440 selvagea1475 selvaging1611 forel1691 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Orlement, a hemming, seluidging. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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