单词 | spatula |
释义 | spatulan. 1. A simple implement of wood, ivory, or metal, having a flat elongated form with various modifications of shape and size, used for a variety of purposes: a. For stirring mixtures (esp. of a medical nature), spreading ointments or plasters, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other medical equipment > [noun] > spatula spatulea1425 spatula1525 splatter1539 languet1611 spathula1658 society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > [noun] > flat blade-shaped spature1348 slicec1400 pallet?a1425 spatulea1425 spattlec1440 slice1483 spatula1525 spatter1569 spather1597 lingel1598 spatul1600 languet1611 spathern1634 blade1653 spathula1658 spatha1881 1525 tr. H. von Brunschwig Noble Experyence Vertuous Handy Warke Surg. sig. Civ/2 Take a spatula & styrre all these togeder. 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 45/1 Reverberate the same dilligentlye with the spatula, and it will be the better. 1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. xviii. 305 Laid on a Spatula plaister-wise. 1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 187 Over which fume..we directly plac'd a spatula. 1683 J. Pettus Fleta Minor (1686) i. 162 Stir it about continually with a wooden spatula. 1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 15 We many times stir the Body that is to be calcin'd with a Spatula, or else mix it with something else. 1740 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (ed. 2) App. p. lxii Take some cotton, and with a spatula..work..the saltpetre and brandy, together. 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 382 Being stirred with a spatula till the whole becomes incorporated. 1838 W. L. Rham Outl. Flemish Husbandry xiii. 61 in Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) (1840) III The butter..is well washed and worked with..a kind of spatula or flat spoon. 1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 18/1 The mixture is removed from the stone by a spatula. b. For minor surgical operations or for the medical examination of certain organs. ΚΠ 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician ii. 45 This Scab..hath fallen off, by the help onely of a Spatula. 1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 220 With a small Spatula..she pick'd out five or six Worms at a time. 1755 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 39/2 The tongue..must be loosened with a spatula. 1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 10 330 He ordered the patient to take in his mouth a silver spatula, to which the conducting chain had been adapted. 1853 J. R. Lowell Lett. (1894) I. iii. 222 There is no spatula with which you can hold the Public's tongue while you force things down their throat. 1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) II. xvii. 5 This is best done by introducing the little finger or a spatula into the nostril. c. For technical operations of various kinds. ΚΠ 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 306 The strip of bark..being raised up..by the spatula of the budding-knife. 1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times xi. 358 The pottery was all made by women. Their tools were very simple, consisting of..a flat mallet or spatula for the surface [etc.]. 1883 Harper's Mag. Oct. 775 The few..tools of the craft—chisel, hammer, spatula—lay in various places. 1887 D. Maguire Art of Massage (ed. 4) ii. 22 We give this name [i.e. palette] to a kind of spatula in the shape of a battledoor with a long handle. 2. A ferule. rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > ferule or flat piece of wood palmeryc1300 palmera1387 ferule-rod1528 ferule1559 ferula1579 ferular1594 paddle1828 spatula1830 1830 A. E. Bray Fitz of Fitz-ford I. iii. 70 A large birchen rod,..and a wooden spatula, to inflict punishment on the hand. 3. Ornithology. The roseate spoonbill. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Threskiornithidae (ibises and spoonbills) > genus Platalea > platalea ajaja (roseate spoonbill) roseate spoonbill1785 scarlet spoonbill1819 spatula1872 1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 138 The rose-coloured spatula, a bird that frequents lakes and rivers [in America], and lives on fish. Compounds C1. attributive, as spatula-hand, spatula-hook. ΚΠ 1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. vii. 66 The spatula hand..is rather that of a mechanician than an artist. 1895 Catal. Surg. Instruments (Arnold & Sons) 145 Spatula Hook.., in ivory handle. C2. spatula-like adj. ΚΠ 1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 150 Their bill..becoming widened and flattened..so as to form a spatula-like disk. spatula-shaped adj. ΚΠ 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) IV. 100 The spatula-shaped leaves appear at the end of these branches. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 263 Spatulate,..spatula-shaped. Broader and rounded at the apex, linear and narrow at the base. 1880 I. L. Bird Unbeaten Tracks Japan II. 93 A spatula-shaped shuttle of engraved wood. C3. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Threskiornithidae (ibises and spoonbills) > genus Platalea > member of (spoonbill) poppelc1300 popeler1400 spoonbill1678 spatula-bird1750 1750 London Mag. May 224/2 As to the Spatula-bird,..it is a kind of water fowl, of the goose or duck kind. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1525 |
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