单词 | boul |
释义 | boulbooln. Obsolete exc. Scottish and northern dialect (bul). 1. Anything bent into a curve; a curvature. Scottish. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > [noun] > a curve > curved thing bow1387 bent1521 boula1522 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iii. viii. 55 A port thar is..In maner of a bow, maid bowle [v.r. boule] or bay. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (at cited word) ‘The bool of the arm’, when it is bent, i.e. the curvature. 2. esp. The curved or semicircular handle of a pail, tea-kettle, pint-stoup, etc.; the annular part of a key; the holes in scissors for the thumb and finger. bouls, bools, a movable handle of two parts for a pot, called also clips. Scottish and English regional (northern). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > parts of tools generally > [noun] > handle > round bail1463 bulle1483 boul1560 bow1611 loop1691 button1780 cob-handle1873 swing-handle1891 flush ring1961 1560 Aberdeen Reg. V. 24 (Jam.) Ane pair of pot bulis. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Si/1 Ye Boule of a potte, ansa, capulum. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. Gloss. 359 To ‘come to the hand like the boul o' a pint-stoup’..as easily and agreeably as the handle of a drinking-vessel comes to the hand of a tippler. Categories » 3. A child's hoop for bowling. dialect. (North-east England.) This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.a1522 |
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