† spencern.¹

Forms: Also Middle English spensere, Middle English spenser, 1500s Scottish spensar; Middle English spencere.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman espenser (compare spence n.²), variant of despenser , Old French despencier , dispenser n.

Obsolete.

One who dispenses or has charge of the provisions in a household; a steward or butler.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > supplying food or catering > supplier of food or caterer > official or superintendent of food > in household, monastery, court, or college

spencerc1380

fratererc1430

poultera1475

provisor1498

sergeant garbagera1616

steward1749

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > head servant or house steward

stewardc1000

spencea1300

spender1340

spencerc1380

maître d'hôtel1540

major-domo1589

dapifer1636

khansama1645

sirkar1772

maître d'1942

α.

c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 413 Þus a clerk or spenser of a curat may parte þes godis in þe name of hym.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4447 Þe spenser and þe botelar bath þe king self wit þaim was wrath.

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 561 Acellarius, a spenser.

a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Two Mice l. 293 in Poems (1981) 15 The spenser come with keyis in his hand.

β. c1400 Gamelyn 493 Adam þe spencer toke vp þe clothe.c1420 Chron. Vilod. 175 After he was kynge, he wedded hure.., His owne spencers douȝter he [= she] was.1483 Cath. Angl. 354/1 A Spencer, vbi A butler.1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Despensier, qui a la garde de la viande, a spencer.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

spencern.²

Brit.

/ˈspɛnsə/, U.S.

/ˈspɛnsər/

Etymology: < the family name Spencer. In sense 1 probably from that of Charles Spencer, third Earl of Sunderland (1674–1722); in sense 2 from that of George John Spencer, second Earl Spencer (1758–1834); in sense 3 from that of Mr. Knight Spencer (fl. 1803); in sense 5, from the name of Christopher Miner Spencer (1833–1922), U.S. inventor and manufacturer.

†1. A kind of wig. Also attributive. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > wig > types of > other

Rogerian1597

Gregorian1598

Chedreux1678

vallancy1684

spencer17..

nightcap wig1709

Adonis1734

pigeon wing1753

grizzle1755

tête1756

bag-wig1760

negligent1762

jasey1789

bushel-wig1794

Brutus1798

scalp1802

Brown Georgea1845

sheitel1890

fright wig1904

katsura1908

neck-roll1920

17.. Songs & P. on Costume (Percy Soc.) 206 At us the fribbles may strut and look big, In their spencers, bobs, and ramelies.

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xv. 118 A gold-laced hat, a spencer wig, and a silver hilted hanger.

1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty xvi. 218 The uniform ‘diamond’ of a card was filled up by the flying dress..of the little capering figure in the spencer-wig.

a. A short double-breasted overcoat without tails worn by men in the latter part of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th.Hence German spencer, spenser, now spenzer, West Flemish spensel.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > overcoat > types of

pee1483

shuba1598

surtout1686

wrap-rascal1716

pea-jacket1717

box coat1718

toggy1742

jockey-coata1745

redingote1770

Polonese coat1774

pea coat1790

spencer1795

grego1809

benjamin1810

bang-up1835

pilot jacket1839

pilot coat1840

Petersham1842

taglioni1843

Chesterfield1852

siphonia1853

raglan1857

Inverness overcoat1865

immensikoff1870

Ulster1876

ulsterette1881

coat1889

polonaise1890

covert coata1893

benny1903

macfarlane1920

1795 Sporting Mag. 5 324/2 Spencers. These fashionable coatlets.

1795 Sporting Mag. 6 41/2 A young gentleman then approaching, dressed in a light coat, and a blue spencer.

1796 Sporting Mag. 7 311 The economical garment called a spencer.

1817 J. Bradbury Trav. Amer. 126 This occasioned..on my part a pretended alarm for fear that his coat should become a spencer.

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxiv. 246 A very respectable old gentleman..dressed in a black spencer and gaiters and a broad-brimmed hat.

1899 C. K. Paul Memories 81 Bethell was the last man who wore a ‘spencer’, an over-jacket which allowed the tails of a dress~coat to appear below it.

b. A kind of close-fitting jacket or bodice commonly worn by women and children early in the 19th century, and since revived.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > bodice > other

corset1299

overbody1535

jupon1542

jup1603

Pierrot?1789

chemisette1796

spencer1799

jupe1810

jelick1816

railly1819

rail1820

Zouave1859

Basque1860

casaque1872

casaquin1879

overbodice1897

choli1907

halter1935

tube top1974

boob tube1977

bustier1978

1799 J. Woodforde Diary 19 June (1931) V. 200 Very cold indeed again today, so cold that Mrs. Custance came walking in her Spenser with a Bosom-friend.

1803 W. Wittman Trav. in Turkey 442 They wear a kind of short spencer of green silk or satin.

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 220 There was a considerable talking among the females in the spencers.

1885 A. Brassey In Trades 69 The women were mostly dressed in..some sort of dark jacket or spencer.

attributive.1883 Cassell's Mag. Dec. 43/2 A resuscitation is the Spencer bodice, as much like those of forty years ago as can be.

c. A short coat or jacket.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > jacket > short

roundabout1812

spencer1831

Eton jacket1850

Eton1885

bum-perisher1889

bum-shaver1889

perisher1889

bolero1892

bum-freezer1929

bum-starver1930

bum-freezer jacket1943

blouson1958

monkey jacket1968

Harrington1982

1831 J. Brown Let. 26 Oct. (1912) 27 Then there is the odd dress of the sailors, with bright yellow worsted spencers and large slouched hats.

1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. xx. 259 Some wore leathern calzoneros, with a spencer or jerkin of the same material.

1879 R. L. Stevenson Trav. with Donkey 10 My travelling wear of country velveteen, pilot-coat, and knitted spencer.

d. A type of under-bodice (usually made of wool) worn esp. by women and girls to provide extra warmth in winter.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > bodice

waistcoat1580

petticoat body1585

bodicea1625

jump1666

jacket bodice1856

camisole1866

spencer1881

bust bodice1889

liberty bodice1892

petticoat bodice1919

cami1995

1881 in A. Adburgham Shops & Shopping (1964) xvii. 189 Light, elastic, inexpensive [hand-knitted clothes], including Jerseys, Cardigans, Vests, Spencers, Combinations, etc.

1924 Mod. Draper II. 94 Articles, such as spencers, hug-me-tights, etc., which are worn above the undergarment, and under the outer garment.

1953 ‘P. Wentworth’ Ivory Dagger xvii. 69 Miss Silver stood revealed in a slip petticoat of grey artificial silk and a neat white spencer whose high neck and long sleeves had..a narrow crochet edging.

1972 L. Hancock There's a Seal in my Sleeping Bag viii. 204 I wore two spencers (Australian item of thermal underwear).

3. A form of life-belt.

ΚΠ

1803 Philos. Mag. 16 172 Account of the Marine Spencer for the Preservation of Lives in Cases of Shipwreck.

1806 Ann. Reg., Usef. Proj. (1808) 980/2 Swimming spencers, which..consist of a cork girdle.

4. slang. (See quot. 1804.)

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > gin > [noun] > a drink of

flash of lightning1789

spencer1804

streak of lightning1839

gin1922

1804 Sporting Mag. 23 220 A small glass of gin in St. Giles's [is called] a Spencer.

5. A type of rim-fire repeating rifle or carbine used esp. during the U.S. Civil War. Frequently attributive.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > rifle > types of

three-o(h)-three1683

air rifle1801

yager1817

big bore1838

seventy-five1840

telescopic rifle1850

Minié rifle1851

needle rifle1856

pea rifle1856

Lancaster1857

six-shooting1858

Whitworth1858

Henry1861

polygroove1863

telescopic-sighted rifle1863

spencer1866

magazine rifle1867

Snider rifle1868

chassepot1869

Martini–Henry rifle1869

Winchester1871

Mauser rifle1872

Martini1876

saloon rifle1881

express1884

express rifle1884

Mannlicher1884

Mauser1887

Lee-Enfield1888

Flobert1890

pump gun1890

take-down1895

two-two1895

Ross rifle1901

hammer-rifle1907

sporter1907

French 751914

twenty-two1925

machine-gun rifle1941

assault rifle1950

assault weapon1968

kalashnikov1970

assault rifle1975

1866 ‘F. Kirkland’ Pictorial Bk. Anecd. 660/1 Harris ordered the skirmish line forward,..with orders to silence the troublesome battery..with the aid of the Spencer rifle.

1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West 545 My horse, bridle, saddle, lariat, gun (a Spencer) and two Navajo blankets cost me two hundred dollars.

1884 A. E. Sweet & J. A. Knox On Mexican Mustang through Texas iii. 38 Weapons of all sorts, from the murderous Spencer rifle to the soothing and medicinal pocket-flask.

1898 E. C. R. Marks Mod. Small Arms ix. 84 The American Spencer rifle of 1860 may be considered as the first successful breech-loading repeating rifle.

1901 T. F. Fremantle Bk. Rifle iv. 79 The Spencer rifle..had cartridges placed in a tube in the stock, and brought forward by a spring.

1904 Kynoch Jrnl. Apr.–June 96 The second repeater—and the one most prominent in the war—was the Spencer, having a magazine in the butt containing seven cartridges.

1915 H. Ommundsen & E. H. Robinson Rifles & Ammun. v. 93

1923 J. H. Cook Fifty Years on Old Frontier 5 I had traded a pistol..for a Spencer carbine.

1949 Exciting Western May 36/2 The .52 Spencer he kept under the bunk was a souvenir of Malvern Hill.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia IX. 412/1 Spencer carbine, military rifle with a magazine in the buttstock that contained seven cartridges. The cartridges were fed into the chamber by means of a trigger-guard operating lever.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	spencer
释义	† spencern.¹ Forms: Also Middle English spensere, Middle English spenser, 1500s Scottish spensar; Middle English spencere. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman espenser (compare spence n.²), variant of despenser , Old French despencier , dispenser n. Obsolete. One who dispenses or has charge of the provisions in a household; a steward or butler. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > supplying food or catering > supplier of food or caterer > official or superintendent of food > in household, monastery, court, or college spencerc1380 fratererc1430 poultera1475 provisor1498 sergeant garbagera1616 steward1749 society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > head servant or house steward stewardc1000 spencea1300 spender1340 spencerc1380 maître d'hôtel1540 major-domo1589 dapifer1636 khansama1645 sirkar1772 maître d'1942 α. c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 413 Þus a clerk or spenser of a curat may parte þes godis in þe name of hym. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4447 Þe spenser and þe botelar bath þe king self wit þaim was wrath. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 561 Acellarius, a spenser. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Two Mice l. 293 in Poems (1981) 15 The spenser come with keyis in his hand. β. c1400 Gamelyn 493 Adam þe spencer toke vp þe clothe.c1420 Chron. Vilod. 175 After he was kynge, he wedded hure.., His owne spencers douȝter he [= she] was.1483 Cath. Angl. 354/1 A Spencer, vbi A butler.1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Despensier, qui a la garde de la viande, a spencer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). spencern.² Brit. /ˈspɛnsə/, U.S. /ˈspɛnsər/ Etymology: < the family name Spencer. In sense 1 probably from that of Charles Spencer, third Earl of Sunderland (1674–1722); in sense 2 from that of George John Spencer, second Earl Spencer (1758–1834); in sense 3 from that of Mr. Knight Spencer (fl. 1803); in sense 5, from the name of Christopher Miner Spencer (1833–1922), U.S. inventor and manufacturer. †1. A kind of wig. Also attributive. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > wig > types of > other Rogerian1597 Gregorian1598 Chedreux1678 vallancy1684 spencer17.. nightcap wig1709 Adonis1734 pigeon wing1753 grizzle1755 tête1756 bag-wig1760 negligent1762 jasey1789 bushel-wig1794 Brutus1798 scalp1802 Brown Georgea1845 sheitel1890 fright wig1904 katsura1908 neck-roll1920 17.. Songs & P. on Costume (Percy Soc.) 206 At us the fribbles may strut and look big, In their spencers, bobs, and ramelies. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xv. 118 A gold-laced hat, a spencer wig, and a silver hilted hanger. 1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty xvi. 218 The uniform ‘diamond’ of a card was filled up by the flying dress..of the little capering figure in the spencer-wig. 2. a. A short double-breasted overcoat without tails worn by men in the latter part of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th.Hence German spencer, spenser, now spenzer, West Flemish spensel. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > overcoat > types of pee1483 shuba1598 surtout1686 wrap-rascal1716 pea-jacket1717 box coat1718 toggy1742 jockey-coata1745 redingote1770 Polonese coat1774 pea coat1790 spencer1795 grego1809 benjamin1810 bang-up1835 pilot jacket1839 pilot coat1840 Petersham1842 taglioni1843 Chesterfield1852 siphonia1853 raglan1857 Inverness overcoat1865 immensikoff1870 Ulster1876 ulsterette1881 coat1889 polonaise1890 covert coata1893 benny1903 macfarlane1920 1795 Sporting Mag. 5 324/2 Spencers. These fashionable coatlets. 1795 Sporting Mag. 6 41/2 A young gentleman then approaching, dressed in a light coat, and a blue spencer. 1796 Sporting Mag. 7 311 The economical garment called a spencer. 1817 J. Bradbury Trav. Amer. 126 This occasioned..on my part a pretended alarm for fear that his coat should become a spencer. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxiv. 246 A very respectable old gentleman..dressed in a black spencer and gaiters and a broad-brimmed hat. 1899 C. K. Paul Memories 81 Bethell was the last man who wore a ‘spencer’, an over-jacket which allowed the tails of a dress~coat to appear below it. b. A kind of close-fitting jacket or bodice commonly worn by women and children early in the 19th century, and since revived. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > bodice > other corset1299 overbody1535 jupon1542 jup1603 Pierrot?1789 chemisette1796 spencer1799 jupe1810 jelick1816 railly1819 rail1820 Zouave1859 Basque1860 casaque1872 casaquin1879 overbodice1897 choli1907 halter1935 tube top1974 boob tube1977 bustier1978 1799 J. Woodforde Diary 19 June (1931) V. 200 Very cold indeed again today, so cold that Mrs. Custance came walking in her Spenser with a Bosom-friend. 1803 W. Wittman Trav. in Turkey 442 They wear a kind of short spencer of green silk or satin. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 220 There was a considerable talking among the females in the spencers. 1885 A. Brassey In Trades 69 The women were mostly dressed in..some sort of dark jacket or spencer. attributive.1883 Cassell's Mag. Dec. 43/2 A resuscitation is the Spencer bodice, as much like those of forty years ago as can be. c. A short coat or jacket. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > jacket > short roundabout1812 spencer1831 Eton jacket1850 Eton1885 bum-perisher1889 bum-shaver1889 perisher1889 bolero1892 bum-freezer1929 bum-starver1930 bum-freezer jacket1943 blouson1958 monkey jacket1968 Harrington1982 1831 J. Brown Let. 26 Oct. (1912) 27 Then there is the odd dress of the sailors, with bright yellow worsted spencers and large slouched hats. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. xx. 259 Some wore leathern calzoneros, with a spencer or jerkin of the same material. 1879 R. L. Stevenson Trav. with Donkey 10 My travelling wear of country velveteen, pilot-coat, and knitted spencer. d. A type of under-bodice (usually made of wool) worn esp. by women and girls to provide extra warmth in winter. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > bodice waistcoat1580 petticoat body1585 bodicea1625 jump1666 jacket bodice1856 camisole1866 spencer1881 bust bodice1889 liberty bodice1892 petticoat bodice1919 cami1995 1881 in A. Adburgham Shops & Shopping (1964) xvii. 189 Light, elastic, inexpensive [hand-knitted clothes], including Jerseys, Cardigans, Vests, Spencers, Combinations, etc. 1924 Mod. Draper II. 94 Articles, such as spencers, hug-me-tights, etc., which are worn above the undergarment, and under the outer garment. 1953 ‘P. Wentworth’ Ivory Dagger xvii. 69 Miss Silver stood revealed in a slip petticoat of grey artificial silk and a neat white spencer whose high neck and long sleeves had..a narrow crochet edging. 1972 L. Hancock There's a Seal in my Sleeping Bag viii. 204 I wore two spencers (Australian item of thermal underwear). 3. A form of life-belt. ΚΠ 1803 Philos. Mag. 16 172 Account of the Marine Spencer for the Preservation of Lives in Cases of Shipwreck. 1806 Ann. Reg., Usef. Proj. (1808) 980/2 Swimming spencers, which..consist of a cork girdle. 4. slang. (See quot. 1804.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > gin > [noun] > a drink of flash of lightning1789 spencer1804 streak of lightning1839 gin1922 1804 Sporting Mag. 23 220 A small glass of gin in St. Giles's [is called] a Spencer. 5. A type of rim-fire repeating rifle or carbine used esp. during the U.S. Civil War. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > rifle > types of three-o(h)-three1683 air rifle1801 yager1817 big bore1838 seventy-five1840 telescopic rifle1850 Minié rifle1851 needle rifle1856 pea rifle1856 Lancaster1857 six-shooting1858 Whitworth1858 Henry1861 polygroove1863 telescopic-sighted rifle1863 spencer1866 magazine rifle1867 Snider rifle1868 chassepot1869 Martini–Henry rifle1869 Winchester1871 Mauser rifle1872 Martini1876 saloon rifle1881 express1884 express rifle1884 Mannlicher1884 Mauser1887 Lee-Enfield1888 Flobert1890 pump gun1890 take-down1895 two-two1895 Ross rifle1901 hammer-rifle1907 sporter1907 French 751914 twenty-two1925 machine-gun rifle1941 assault rifle1950 assault weapon1968 kalashnikov1970 assault rifle1975 1866 ‘F. Kirkland’ Pictorial Bk. Anecd. 660/1 Harris ordered the skirmish line forward,..with orders to silence the troublesome battery..with the aid of the Spencer rifle. 1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West 545 My horse, bridle, saddle, lariat, gun (a Spencer) and two Navajo blankets cost me two hundred dollars. 1884 A. E. Sweet & J. A. Knox On Mexican Mustang through Texas iii. 38 Weapons of all sorts, from the murderous Spencer rifle to the soothing and medicinal pocket-flask. 1898 E. C. R. Marks Mod. Small Arms ix. 84 The American Spencer rifle of 1860 may be considered as the first successful breech-loading repeating rifle. 1901 T. F. Fremantle Bk. Rifle iv. 79 The Spencer rifle..had cartridges placed in a tube in the stock, and brought forward by a spring. 1904 Kynoch Jrnl. Apr.–June 96 The second repeater—and the one most prominent in the war—was the Spencer, having a magazine in the butt containing seven cartridges. 1915 H. Ommundsen & E. H. Robinson Rifles & Ammun. v. 93 1923 J. H. Cook Fifty Years on Old Frontier 5 I had traded a pistol..for a Spencer carbine. 1949 Exciting Western May 36/2 The .52 Spencer he kept under the bunk was a souvenir of Malvern Hill. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia IX. 412/1 Spencer carbine, military rifle with a magazine in the buttstock that contained seven cartridges. The cartridges were fed into the chamber by means of a trigger-guard operating lever. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022). spencern.³ Brit. /ˈspɛnsə/, U.S. /ˈspɛnsər/ Etymology: Perhaps of similar origin to spencer n.² Nautical. A fore-and-aft sail, set with a gaff, serving as a trysail to the fore or main mast of a vessel. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > trysail try1665 trysail1769 spencer1840 storm-trysail1851 storm-spencer1857 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast v. 37 We had got her down to close-reefed topsails, double-reefed trysail, and reefed fore spenser. 1851 R. Kipping Sails & Sail-making (ed. 2) 5 There are the fore-trysail, main-trysail, and mizen-trysail, or as they are sometimes called the fore-spencer, Duke of York or main-spencer, and storm-mizen. 1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) xix. §807 At 8 p.m...hove to under close-reefed main top-sail and spencer. attributive.1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast v. 38 The chief mate..was standing..at the foot of the spenser mast.1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxv. 277 The captain ordered the fore and main spencer gaffs to be lowered down. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † spencerv. Obsolete. rare. (Meaning obscure.) ΚΠ 1831 Examiner 278/1 The accomplished Sir Robert Gresley has arrived in Newark, and has offered to display his pugilistic prowess in the Market-place, having been spencered by the people. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.¹c1380n.²17..n.³1840v.1831
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