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单词 botemay
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botemayn.

Forms: Middle English botemey, Middle English buttemay, Middle English butumay, Middle English butumey, Middle English (1800s historical) botemay.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French butemai, betumai.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman butemai, variant of betumai, betumei bitumen, pitch (last quarter of the 12th cent.; compare Old French betumoi , butemei , butumei bitumen (c1160), (usually in extended use) bog, quagmire (late 12th cent.)), < classical Latin bitūmin- , bitūmen bitumen n., with alteration of the ending after Anglo-Norman -ai , Anglo-Norman and Old French (northern) -ei , Old French -oi , suffix forming collective nouns ( < classical Latin -ētum -etum suffix)). Compare later bitumen n.
Obsolete. rare.
Bitumen.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > hydrocarbon minerals > [noun] > bitumen > asphalt
asphalt1366
glue1382
botemayc1400
pitcha1425
bitumena1464
slime1530
Jews' lime1543
Jews' pitch1562
Jews'-slime1640
tar1747
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > mineral and fossil resins > [noun] > bitumen or pitch
glue1382
botemayc1400
pitcha1425
slime1530
bitumen1605
tar1747
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 4754 He bishett Taurunceys Wiþ pilers of bras and butumeys [a1425 Linc. Inn botemeys].
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 6179 Hij [sc. the gates] ben made of hosyers..Abouen and byneþen is her helyng Wiþ buttemay [a1425 Linc. Inn botemay] þat wele so clyng, Þat no water, salt ne cler, Hem to dere ne haþ power.
1867 Gentleman's Mag. May 610 A wall..is described as being in its perfect portions about fifteen feet high, built of stone with a concrete mixed of sand and shells—the botemay, probably, of the romancers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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