单词 | thripple |
释义 | thripplen. Now local. A movable framework fitted upon a cart, so as to project in every direction beyond its sides, and thus to extend its carrying surface when loaded with hay, etc.; a cart-ladder, shelving. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > parts of > body > plank or rail > to increase capacity cart-staff1297 thripple14.. rathe1459 summer1510 cart-ladder?1523 rail1530 rave1530 shelboard1569 wain-flakes1570 load-pina1642 shelvingsa1642 cop1679 float1686 lade1686 outrigger1794 shelvement1808 sideboard1814 heck1825 hay-rigging1855 floating rail1892 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 628/10 Epredia, the þerrepyllis. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 354 The Cart-ladder or thripple both before and behind being to be taken off at pleasure. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 339/2 In an Oxe Teeame [the Cart Lathers] are termed Thriples. 1891 Berrow's Worcester Jrnl. 28 Mar. 7/2 His pair of thripples were new ones. He bought the thripples from defendant in exchange for some hay hauling he had done for him. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † thripplev. Obsolete. intransitive. To practise small economies; to exercise mean thrift. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > sparingness or frugality > be sparing or frugal [verb (intransitive)] > economize > in small things thripple1583 cheesepare1874 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Mviv This makes many a one to thripple & pinch, to runne into debte and daunger. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.14..v.1583 |
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