单词 | spleet |
释义 | spleetn. Now dialect and rare. A small strip of split wood or willow. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [noun] > long narrow piece > of wood or metal spleet1609 spline1756 slat1764 1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie iii. sig. C4v If the hiue be then fourteene inches ouer within, it may wel receiue foure spleets. 1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects 60 Mr. Southern and others..advise, that if Bees finde fault with a Hive, and will not continue in it, to pull out the spleats. a1679 J. Moore Englands Interest (1703) 104 Your Hive being pruned put in your spleets. 1766 Museum Rusticum 6 2 Bind their stems together with a spleet of willow, or some tough wood. 1766 Museum Rusticum 6 3 A small wreath, made of spleet, is slipped on the upper end of the staff. 1899– in Eng. Dial. Dict. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [verb (transitive)] > fit out hive hackle1609 spleet1609 1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie iii. sig. C4v This is the easiest & quickest way of spleeting a hiue. 1661 J. Worlidge Dict. Rusticum in Systema Agric. (1681) 186 The way they usually Spleet the ordinary Strawn and Daubed Hives, every Countrey Coridon understands. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021). spleetv.2 Chiefly Scottish. transitive and intransitive. To split. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > crack, split, or fissure to-slita1250 rivea1400 slatterc1400 chapc1460 chip1508 gaig1584 spleet1585 split1595 chink1599 chawn1602 slent1605 slat1607 sliver1608 speld1616 crevice1624 checka1642 chicka1642 crack1664 splice1664 sleave- the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > cleaving or splitting > cleave or split [verb (transitive)] to-cleavec888 cleavea1100 forcleavec1290 shidec1315 rivec1330 sheara1340 carvec1374 slivea1400 thrusche1483 porfend1490 splet1530 share?1566 spleet1585 splint1591 split1595 diverberate1609 fissure1656 spall1841 balkanize1942 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 62/2 Piscem exdorsuare,..to spleete out, or part alongest the ridge bone iust in the midst. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. vii. 121 Mine owne tongue Spleet's what it speakes. View more context for this quotation 1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. To Spleet a fish, een visch splyten. 1701 J. Brand Brief Descr. Orkney, Zetland 25 At all times it is highly dangerous..to pass through between the Isles, tho with small Boats, because of the many blind Rocks lying there, upon which sometimes the Inhabitants themselves do spleet. c1730 W. Starrat in Ramsay Poems (1760) 222 We'll to the harning drive, When in fresh lizar they get spleet and rive. 1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xii. 194 Men..holding their sides, laughing like to spleet them. 1866 T. Edmondston Etymol. Gloss. Shetland & Orkney Dial. 115 Spleet (to), to split. 1900 Shetl. News 22 Sept. (E.D.D.) Da auld axe ta spleet da lamb's head wi'. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1609v.21585 |
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