单词 | shredding |
释义 | shreddingn.ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > pruning or lopping shreddingc1000 putation?1440 snathing1485 loppingc1511 brushing1513 topping1513 twisting1535 pruning1548 heading1552 browsing1574 lop1575 disbranching1600 debranching1601 stocking1611 stowing1618 polling1626 supputation1656 summer pruning1669 snedding1720 shrouding1725 pollarding1794 thinning1800 brashing1950 c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 149/11 Putatio, screadung. c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 264 Scredynge of trees. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 448/2 Schredynge, of trees and oþer lyke, sarmentacio, sarculacio. 1486 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 255 Felling and shredyng of wode. 1567 in F. J. Baigent Coll. Rec. & Documents Crondal (1891) 172 In shreddinge of busshes, heathe or fearne. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvii. xxiii. 538 In lopping and shredding of trees. 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva 114 It may take root, and hasten..to a sudden Tree; especially, if seasonable shreading be appli'd. 2. concrete. a. A fragment; a shred. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > pruning or lopping > prunings or loppings shreddingc950 trouse978 stickc1175 rammelc1250 spray1297 brush1330 shriding1340 shridels1399 lopc1420 shraggingc1440 shroud1475 tops1485 polling1557 brutting1577 lopping1589 pruning1658 toppings1668 scorel1671 loppage1683 lop-wood1693 shrouding1725 cropping1768 the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment shreddingc950 brucheOE shredc1000 brokec1160 truncheonc1330 scartha1340 screedc1350 bruisinga1382 morsel1381 shedc1400 stumpc1400 rag?a1425 brokalyc1440 brokeling1490 mammocka1529 brokelette1538 sheavec1558 shard1561 fragment1583 segment1586 brack1587 parcel1596 flaw1607 fraction1609 fracture1641 pash1651 frustillation1653 hoof1655 arrachement1656 jaga1658 shattering1658 discerption1685 scar1698 twitter1715 frust1765 smithereens1841 chitling1843 c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xiv. 20 Tuoelf ceawlas vel foðer screadunga fullo, duodecim cophinos fragmentorum plenos. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xxvii. 57 It [sc. the Common Prayer] hath a number of short cuts or shreddings which may be better called wishes then prayers. 1672 J. Eachard Let. 25 in Mr. Hobbs's State Nature Considered I knew of no better instance to represent the vanity of such kind of idle shreddings. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 112 The cloak and hat..worn to shreddings. 1853 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice III. iii. 136 An artistical pottage composed of nymphs, cupids, and satyrs, with shreddings of heads and paws of..beasts, and nondescript vegetables. 1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason vii. 126 She..cast therein Shreddings of many herbs. ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cii. 993 Þe Arrabes makeþ fuyre of schredynge þerof [sc. mirra]. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 449/1 Schredynge, or schrub.., putamen. 1529 in J. H. Glover Kingsthorpiana (1883) 70 Almaner of laufull loppe and schreddyng of trees. ?1553 Respublica (1952) i. i. 4 The windefalles, the shriddinges, the flycinges. 1649 in T. West Antiq. Furness (1774) 178 Any shredings, lops, crops, under woods, and other woods. 1762 Lease 10 Dec. in Jrnl. House of Commons (1792) XLVII. 255/1 A competent Quantity of Browsing of the Shredding of the Trees. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > ornamental trimmings > [noun] > lace > other biliment lace1578 seaming lace1631 shredding1766 pasting lace1837 baby lace1865 bull's-eye1879 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. iv. 39 I don't know whether such flouncing and shredding is becoming even in the rich. 4. Reducing to shreds; spec. the reducing of documents to small strips or fragments by a machine esp. for reasons of security. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > tearing or tearing apart > [noun] tatteringc1380 rendinga1398 rifta1400 rentingc1405 ripping1463 direption1483 outriving1488 dilaceration1545 raving1553 dilaniation1569 divulsion1603 discission1628 discerption1645 tear1666 rent1753 shredding1954 1954 Paper-Maker Dec. 94 (advt.) Watford Shredder and Duster. A speedy and efficient method of shredding, dusting and cleaning. 1966 Punch 15 June 864/3 The special executive type shredder involved the user in actually removing pins from documents before shredding. 1973 Times 18 May 11/4 Mr Odle said he did not know what documents Mr Liddy was destroying in the paper shredder but in retrospect he conceded that the shredding had been very significant. Compounds attributive, as shredding-hook, shredding-knife, shredding machine, shredding-scythe. ΚΠ c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 106/15 Surculus, wingeardes screadungisen. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. John xv. 97 An unprofitable braunche, when it is cut of with a shreadyng hooke. 1577 J. Grange Garden in Golden Aphroditis sig. Siijv Come Atropos therefore in haste On me to vse thy shredding knyfe. 1586 in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign Elizabeth (1845) I. 209 Time attendes with shredding sithe for all. 1615 G. Markham Eng. Hus-wife in Countrey Contentments ii. 40 Take a good quantity of blaunch't Almonds, and with your shredding knife cut them grosly. 1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester Shriddin' Bill or Hook, a tool used for cutting out grass, briars, etc., from a ditch. 1975 R. L. Simon Wild Turkey xii. 77 I was in my office..when I heard someone at the shredding machine. 1980 P. Kinsley Vatchman Switch xvii. 115 He switched on the shredding machine. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online September 2021). shreddingadj. Breaking up into shreds. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > tearing or tearing apart > [adjective] rivinga1400 renting1561 ripping1576 splitting1609 divulsivea1626 rending1660 shredding1883 1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi li. 501 Spectral trees, dimly glimpsed through the shredding fog. 1904 E. Dowden Robert Browning 304 These change like the shifting and shredding clouds before our eyes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.c950adj.1883 |
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