单词 | spalliard |
释义 | † spalliardn.1 Obsolete. rare. A labourer engaged in tin-mining. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of fruit > [noun] > fruit-frame > row of trees trained on spalliard1625 espalier1712 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > one who mines metals > tin-miner tinner1357 spalliard1625 tin-miner1899 1625 Laws Stannaries (1808) xii. 21 A labouring tinner, a blower, owner of blowing-houses, a spalliard, or adventurer. a1628 J. Doddridge Hist. Wales, Cornewall & Chester (1630) 93 The laborious search for Tynne in those dayes, euen as it is vsed by the Spaliard at this day with great industrie and paines. 1836 R. Polwhele Hist. Cornwall Gloss. 91/2 Spallier, a labourer in tin-works. See Acts of the Stannary Parliaments.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). spalliardn.2 regional. = espalier n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > cultivated or valued > [noun] > fruit-tree > wall-tree or standard standard1625 wall-tree1653 stander1660 espalier1664 wall-fruit1669 mural1684 waller1688 wall1707 cordon1878 spalliard1888 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Spalliard, espalier, a trained fruit tree. I think, sir, we must dig up that spalliard plum. 1920 E. Pound Umbra 114 Come buds on bough and spalliard pleach. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.11625n.21888 |
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