单词 | staver |
释义 | stavern.1 dialect and Scottish. 1. A rung (of a ladder). Also, ‘one of the bars of a hay-rack’ ( N.W. Linc. Gloss.); ‘a stake for a hedge, etc.’ ( Sheffield Gloss.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > ladder > [noun] > rung or step stepc1000 gangOE stavec1175 tine?c1225 ladder stalea1250 degreec1290 rungc1300 staffc1325 stairc1400 ladder stavec1440 scalec1440 roundc1450 stakec1450 sprang1527 staver1534 rundle1565 rave1566 roundel1585 rondel1616 ladder rung1620 rowel1652 spokea1658 stower1674 stale1714 rim1788 tread1838 through1899 step iron1912 1534 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 190 Item in the whete chamber a ladder of viij stavirs. 1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. Stavers, the staves or rounds of a ladder. 2. A stave (of a cask). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > strip of wood > for making casks or vessels stavea1398 staff1531 barrel stave1549 hogshead stavec1580 pipe stavec1580 lag1659 laggin1825 noggin-stave1855 staver1891 1891 ‘H. Haliburton’ Ochil Idylls 89 'Maist like an auld cask dung to stavers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). stavern.2 dialect and U.S. One who is continually ‘staving’ about; an active, energetic person. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > briskness or activeness > person trotter1555 stirrer1570 verb1730 shinner1838 staver1860 heller1895 1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career xii. 178 Oh! she's right, I tell you, and she's got one of the mothers—regular staver. 1869 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks x. 117 She was spoken of with applause under such titles as ‘a staver’, ‘a pealer,’ ‘a roarer to work’. 1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall Staver, a fussy, noisy person. ‘She's a regular staver; she staves about from morning to night.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2020). stavern.3 In plural (construed as singular). The staggers = stagger n.1 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > staggers or gid turn?1523 sturdiness1552 turn-sick1566 sturdy1570 dazy1577 stavers1597 (to have) the staggers1599 gid1601 giddy1603 turnabout1605 stacker1610 turning-evil1614 megrims1639 blind staggers1784 the goggles1793 dazing1799 stomach-staggers1831 turn-sick1834 turn-side1845 phalaris staggers1946 1597 [see staverwort n. at Compounds]. 1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman i. v. 30 This preventeth Yellowes, Stavers; and such like diseases. c1720 W. Gibson Farriers New Guide ii. xv. 65 That Distemper, which Farriers call the Stavers or Staggers. 1749 London Mag. 277 A disease called the staggers, or stavers, in horses. Compounds staverwort n. the plant Senecio Jacobæa, ragwort. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > ragwort groundsela700 ragwortc1300 bunweeda1525 senecio1562 St. James's wort1578 rugwort1592 felon-weed1597 staggerwort1597 staverwort1597 yellow-weed1597 ragweed1610 swine's grassa1697 hogs madder1707 sea-ragwort1736 dog standard1767 Jacobaea1789 swinecress1803 benweed1823 fly-dod1826 mountain groundsel1830 cushag1843 fairies' horse1866 Oxford ragwort1884 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 219 Iacobea... The countrey people do call it Stagger woort, and Stauerwoort. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 187 Take [of]..Staverwort..a handful. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1093/2 Staverwort, Senecio Jacobæa. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). staverv. Chiefly Scottish. intransitive. (a) To stagger (literal and figurative). (b) To wander about aimlessly or in a restless manner. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > unsteadily wiggle?c1225 walter1399 falterc1400 stammerc1400 dotterc1475 stavera1500 stumblea1500 reel1529 scamblec1571 halper1596 totter1602 folder1607 wamble1611 to make a Virginia fence1671 wandle1686 fribble1709 rock1718 stoit1719 stoiter1724 swagger1724 doddle1761 stotter1781 toit1786 doiter1793 stot1801 dodder1819 twaddle1823 teeter1844 shoggle1884 welter1884 warple1887 whemmel1895 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander > idly roil?c1335 gada1500 stavera1500 vaguea1525 scoterlope1574 idle1599 haika1605 saunter1671 stravaig1801 palmer1805 streel1805 taver1808 traik1818 gander1822 gallivant1823 gilravage1825 project1828 daud1831 meander1831 to knock about1833 to kick about1839 to knock round1848 piroot1858 sashay1865 june1869 tootle1902 slop1907 beetle1919 stooge1941 swan1942 a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) iv. l. 816 Al þus in wodnes as thai waueryde And stekyt sa withe stokys staweride. a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) iii. l. 797 Þus in seige a sote to se,..Sal ger standande statis stauer. 1755 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth in tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) 30 I was lyin tawin an' wamlin..like..a stirkie that had staver'd into a well-eye. 1755 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth in tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) Gloss. Staver'd, Stagger'd. 1776 C. Keith Farmer's Ha' xxxii [The ganger] gangs just stavering about In quest o' prey. 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 203 So out I stavers, for rest I could na' within. 1864 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin xix. 199 I staivered awa in, an' tauld my story. 1884 J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: Life in London I. iii. 69 He slept badly from overwork, ‘gaeing stavering aboot the hoose at night,’ as the Scotch maid said, restless alike in mind and body. 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