单词 | shirrel |
释义 | shirreln. Scottish. (Common in the 16th cent.) A turf. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > [noun] > sod turfc725 flagc1440 clot1460 soda1475 shirrel1513 ploud1535 peat1570 clod1594 roughhead1631 pare1651 scurf1708 flaw1811 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid viii. iii. 190 And he hym self the Troiane men fut het On sonkis of gresy scheraldis hes doun set. 1554–5 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 360 Item, for scheratts and devatts ixs. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 336 The fluir laid witht greine cherittis [v.r. scheirrittis]. 1597 in J. Stuart Misc. Spalding Club (1841) I. 143 Thow..keist a grene truff or scherard, and laid the new calffit calff theirvpon. 1755 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth in tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) 29 Our..coach-man turned o'er our gallant cart amon a heap o' shirrels, an' peat-mow. 1755 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth in tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) Gloss. Shirrels, turf. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Shirrot, a turf or divot, Banffs. 1826 D. Anderson Poems in Sc. Dial. 9 Hardly a shurral even to rest a fire. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1513 |
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