单词 | sythe |
释义 | sythen. Scottish and English regional (midlands). A sieve; a milk strainer.Recorded earliest in milk sithe n. at milk n.1 and adj. Compounds 1b. Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records this word as still in use in Perthshire in 1972. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > milk straining > milk strainer milksile1459 sile1459 sye1468 sythe1568 siling-dish1574 milk strainer1668 sile-dish1668 milsey1697 siler1856 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > straining > [noun] > strainer strainer1326 renge?1362 canvasc1386 strain1432 searcec1440 sye1468 runnera1475 ranger1485 renger1510 searce-net1526 colatory?1541 range1542 sight1559 sythe1568 colature1577 tamis1601 sile-dish1668 hurdle1725 kenting1725 stamin1725 tammy1769 tamin1847 vat-neta1884 chinois1937 1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) III. 16 Ane milk syth. 1579 S. Novimola Despauterii Grammaticæ Institutionis Lib. VII (new ed.) ii. 34 Colum, ane Syith [1617 syeth]. 1808 E. Hamilton Cottagers of Glenburnie ix. 201 There has been lang a hole in the milk sythe. 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) 240 Sithe, var. of Sey [= ‘a sieve, more particularly, a bowl or sieve to strain milk through’]. 1887 D. Donaldson Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl. 233/2 Syth, Sythe, a ‘sey’, sieve, or strainer for milk. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). sythev.α. late Middle English cythe, late Middle English sythe, 1500s sieth; English regional (northern and midlands) 1800s sithe; Scottish pre-1700 syth, pre-1700 1800s sythe, 1700s sieth, 1700s 1900s– scythe, 1900s– scyde (Fife), 1900s– sithe, 1900s– syde (north-east central). β. English regional (northern and midlands) 1800s saithe (Leicestershire), 1800s seeth (Lancashire); Scottish 1800s seithe, 1900s– seath (Fife), 1900s– seeth (southern). Scottish and English regional (northern and midlands) in later use. transitive. To strain (liquid, esp. milk) through a sieve; to filter; to sift. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > straining > strain [verb (transitive)] syec725 strainc1386 sile14.. sythe1440 farcea1475 colate1631 elutriate1731 colander1887 tammy1903 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 79 Cyyd, or cythyd and clensyd, as mylke, or oþer lyke, colatus. 1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 334 In a vessel of glas parieted with clay sieth it till it growe together. 1571 J. Leslie Diary 13 June in Bannatyne Misc. (1855) III. 125 The watter sythed throw ane cloith. 1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) 84 They sieth it into a brass veshell tinned within. 1777 Whole Proc. Jockey & Maggy (rev. ed.) ii. 7 He lost a but the grit bits scythed through his teeth. 1808 E. Hamilton Cottagers of Glenburnie ix. 201 I tak ay care to sythe the milk through my fingers. 1809 Farmer's Mag. June 250 Each cow's milk is seithed..into a dish of wood. 1850 Catholic Mag. & Reg. July 303 I went to the dairy to see the milk sythed. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 236 Sithe, to strain and purify milk. 1882 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial.: Pt. II Seeth (Ormskirk), to sift. 1977 J. Y. Mather & H. H. Speitel Ling. Atlas Scotl. II. 131 To strain (milk), [Perth] syde, [Fife] scyde, seath, syde, [Stirling] scythe, [Fife, Stirling, Ayr, Renfrew, Lanark, Midlothian, East Lothian] sithe, [Peebles] seeth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1568v.1440 |
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