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单词 spay
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spayn.

Forms: Also spey(e.
Etymology: < Middle Flemish speye (14th cent., also in French texts espeye; Kilian spije; modern West Flemish speie, spei), related to Middle Flemish spoye (Kilian spuje, Flemish and Dutch spui) in the same sense.
Obsolete. rare.
A sluice. (Cf. spayer n.)
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the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > gate, lock, or sluice
hatchOE
clowa1250
lock1261
water lock1261
sluice1340
water gate1390
sewer-gate1402
spay1415
floodgatec1440
shuttlec1440
spayer1450
gate1496
falling gate1524
spoye1528
gote1531
penstock1542
ventil1570
drawgate1587
flood-hatch1587
turnpike1623
slaker1664
lock gate1677
hatchway1705
flash1768
turnpike-lock1771
sluice-gate1781
pound-lock1783
stop-gate1790
buck gate1791
slacker1797
aboiteau1802
koker1814
guard-lock1815
falling sluice1819
lasher1840
fender1847
tailgate1875
weir-hatch1875
wicket1875
1415 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 615 [A watergate, called a] scluys, [or a] speye.
1429 Cov. Leet Bk. 121 The residu of the money spended apon the makyng of the Town dyche, & the spey atte Gosford yate.
1451 Cov. Leet Bk. 258 The whiche portecoles, Spayes & Cheynes ben made & myche part of the dykes clansed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

spayv.

Brit. /speɪ/, U.S. /speɪ/
Forms: Also Middle English–1500s spaie, 1500s–1600s spaye, 1600s, 1800s spey; past participle spade.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman espeier, = Old French espeer to cut with a sword, < espee (French épée) sword.
1. transitive. To pierce or cut (a deer) so as to kill. Obsolete.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > kill animal [verb (transitive)] > by specific method
sticklOE
worry1340
strikea1400
spaya1425
lipc1475
smeek1691
pith1805
whoo-whoop1812
halal1819
to bark1865
destroy1866
flight1892
lethalize1897
lethal1922
a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) Prol. And after whann the hert is spaied and dede he vndothe hym.
a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xxxiii Þen shulde who so be moste maister þere byd somme of þe hunters go spay hym euen behynde þe shulder forwarde to þe herte.
2. To operate upon (a female, esp. the female of certain animals) so as to remove the ovaries and destroy the reproductive power.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [verb (transitive)] > castrate > spay
spaya1425
geld1557
splay1601
spade1612
spave1671
the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > infertile [verb (transitive)] > castrate or spay > spay
spaya1425
geld1557
unwoman1827
a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xi And bycause þei shuld not lese her tyme, men make hem yspayed, saue þose men will kepe open to bere whelpes.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxvi. 186 The kydneys whiche Gelders take awaye from a bytche..when they spaye hir.
1586 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husb. (rev. ed.) iii. f. 150v The Sowes are spaide by burning the Matrixe with an iron.
c1604 Charlemagne (1938) ii. 25 If she hadd beene spayed & all mankynd made Euenucks.
1639 T. de Gray Expert Farrier Ep. Ded., in Compl. Horseman ii. sig. b A Gelder who spayes more then a hundred Fillies.
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 149 [He] knew..When Sows, and Bitches may be spade.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Bitch But if you would spay your Bitch, it must be done before ever she has a Litter of Whelps.
1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 297 He..spays about half the heifers.
1820 P. B. Shelley Œdipus Tyrannus i. 11 Out with your knife,..and spay those sows, That load the earth with pigs.
1879 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women iv. 48 Lastly, it has of late years frequently been decided to spay women in this disease.
figurative.a1658 J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ (1677) 10 Geld your loose wits, and let your Muse be spade.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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