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单词 swape
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swapen.

/sweɪp/
Forms: Also Middle English swaype, 1500s swaipe, 1600s swap (?).
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse sveip-.
Etymology: originally < Old Norse sveip-, denoting sweeping or circle-wise motion, represented by sveipa to sweep, wrap, swaddle, swoop (see swope v.1), sveipr fold of garment, in combination öldusveipr ‘wave-sweeper’, oar. In later usage influenced by, or varying locally with, sweep n.
dialect.
I. A pole or lever, and related uses.
1. Applied to various contrivances of the form of a lever: see quots. Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > lever > [noun]
swape1492
lever1648
vectis1648
sweep1657
1492–3 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 186 The swaype of þe cherch dore.
1666 in Archæol. Æliana XVII. 133 For swapes for ye bells 1s.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §333 (note) A Swape (a north country term for a Lever, when fixed upon a centre, and acted upon by the hand).
2. A large oar, esp. one used for steering a barge: = sweep n. 28.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > steering equipment > [noun] > steering oar
ruddereOE
steering scull1420
strothirc1460
swape1592
steer-oar1802
steering-oar1816
oar-rudder1844
oar-helm1883
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > rowing apparatus > [noun] > oar > long or large oar
swape1592
spread1698
sweep1801
1592 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 252 Half a kurvell lighter, with hir furnytter, that is, j ore and a swaipe [etc.].
1789 J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle II. 261 (note) [The keelmen] call the great oar, used as a kind of rudder at the stern of this vessel, the swape.
1864 S. Smiles Life G. & R. Stephenson (1868) ii. i. 67 The vessel being guided by the aid of the ‘swape,’ or great oar.
3. A long pole supported on a fulcrum and carrying a bucket for raising water; also, a pump-handle: = sweep n. 24. Also in combination, as swape-well (for other combinations see Eng. Dial. Dict.).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > for raising water
well bucket1477
flail?a1500
kettle-mill1570
scoop1580
water engine1611
chain-pumpa1618
cochlea1648
water-screw1648
engine1652
bucket-fountain1663
chain1682
noria1696
tub-engine1702
tub-gin1702
well-pole1727
screw engine1729
rag1747
rag pump1747
swape1773
picotah1780
water balance1800
ram1801
well sweep1818
shadoof1836
hydraulic belt1856
water carrier1875
bailer1883
trip-bucket1926
1773 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 179 A pump..whose handle (or swape, as it is called hereabout [sc. Ripley, Yorks.]) is all of iron, very thick and long.
1890 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 10 240/1 Dwellers in the Eastern Counties may be credited with knowing what a swape-well is... A swape-well is a well from which the water is raised by a loaded lever.
1908 E. Fowler Between Trent & Ancholme 369 I remember the two Roxby ‘Swape-wells’..the woman pulling down the swape by the chain.
4. A sconce for a light.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > support or holder for a candle > [noun] > candlestick > with wall bracket
sconce?c1450
sconce candlestick1455
perk1475
perch1565
girandole1769
wall shade1826
swape1867
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.
5. (See quot. 1881.)
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1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 184 Swape, an implement for shaping the edge of a boring-bit.
II. A crop of hay.
6. The crop of hay taken up from a meadow: = sweep n. 18.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > mowing of grass > amount mowed
mowinga1576
strake1585
mowth1613
swape1614
sweepage1628
sweep1672
1614 G. Markham 2nd Bk. Eng. Husbandman ii. vii. 95 The swap and first crop is all the maine profit you can challenge your owne.
1622 tr. Indenture an. 1456 in Gentleman's Mag. May (1863) 629 It is agreed the Prior of malton and Co'uent..shall haue swape of Certen medowes.
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