单词 | spane |
释义 | spanen. A chip or slip of wood. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > splinter or chip astela1330 spelkc1440 spile1513 spane1602 shive1661 flakec1720 splice1875 1602 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 146 Spygotts and fawset and for wood spanes, iijd. 1891 S. Baring-Gould Urith I. vii. 105 At the fire-breast burnt, what was called a ‘spane’, that is, a slip of deal steeped in resin, which lighted the housewife at her operations at the fire. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2020). spanev. northern and Scottish. 1. a. transitive. To wean (an infant, lamb, etc.). Also figurative and in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feed or nourish [verb (transitive)] > wean weanc960 spanea1340 spean1595 ablactate1754 a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cxxx. 4 As a childe þat has nede to be on his modur kne and fostird wiþ hur mylke perisch if he be wenyd [v.r. spaned] & takyn fro mylke. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3018 Quen he [sc. Isaac] was spaned [Fairf. sponed] fra þe pap, His fader..made a fest. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 107 A womman when sho will spane hur child. 1483 Cath. Angl. 351/1 To Spayn (A. Spane), ablactare. 1509 in J. R. Walbran Mem. Abbey St. Mary of Fountains (1863) I. 235 xl yews with their lames to [=until] they be spaned. 1549 D. Monro in W. Macfarlane Geogr. Coll. Scotl. (1908) III. 293 The Lambes of that end of the countrey uses to be fed, and spained fra the ȝowes. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Biiv/1 To Spane, weane, ablactare, depellere. 1653 in Laing Lindores Abbey (1876) 224 Their~after the chyld was spayned. 1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 44 To Spane a Child; to wean it. [Hence in Bailey and later Dicts.] 1781– in various northern and Sc. dial. glossaries and texts. 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 12 The sinfu' bodies o' the Elie Were spain'd frae image-worship hailly. 1896 Pall Mall Mag. Apr. 515 To help the old shepherd in ‘spaning’ the lambs. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > suspension spane1516 1516 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 164 Vnder the payne of spayning fra the occupatioun for yeir and day. 1529 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 5 To..spane thame fra the operatione for yer and day. 2. intransitive. Of corn: To begin to take root and cast off the seed.Cf. West Flemish spanen, spenen, spennen, to set (of fruit). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [verb (intransitive)] > grow or produce parts (of plants) grain1390 ear1442 spindle1577 to run to straw1660 tassel out1757 spean1829 spane1843 silk1878 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) Corn is said to be in spane or spaan, when it just begins to shoot its roots or to detach itself from the parent grain.] 1843 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 4 i. 186 That state of transition, in which it cannot be said whether it derives its food from the seed, the soil, or the atmosphere (the state in which it is commonly said to be ‘spaining’). 1863 Mrs. Toogood Specim. Yorks. Dial. (MS.) The corn is looking yellow; it is just beginning to spane. Derivatives ˈspaned adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [adjective] > weaned weanedc1440 spaned?a1513 a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 107 My new spanit howffing fra the sowk. 1560 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) I. 86 A spaned calf. 1563 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 210 xiij spaned calves. 1894 P. H. Hunter James Inwick xx. 251 I'll süne hae to stay my stamack wi' sappy meat, like a spained wean. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > young > weaned weanyer1524 weanling1532 spaneling1577 1577 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 417 ij sues, iiijor spainlings, & one boare. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1602v.a1340 |
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