单词 | to grave away |
释义 | > as lemmasto grave away 2. transitive. To dig, form by digging; to dig out, excavate. Also with out, up. †to grave away: to get rid of by digging. Now rare exc. dialect in to grave peat(s, to grave turf. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [verb (transitive)] > dig (hole, etc.) delvec825 graveOE sinkc1358 diga1387 holkc1400 cast1481 to dig up1551 moil1581 effodiate1612 diffode1657 to dig out1748 burrow1831 excavate1839 crow1853 OE Riming Poem 71 Me þæt wyrd gewæf, ond gewyrht forgeaf, þæt ic grofe græf. a1300 E.E. Psalter vii. 16 Þe slough he opened and it groue he. 1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 7 Þei..hadde graue on þe ground many grete cauys. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Cleopatra. 678 And next the shryne a pit thann doth she grave. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 17288 + 134 In [read It] was in maner of a hows þat crist laide in was, Grauen depe in a roche. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) ix. 35 Þe pitte þer þai graue it vpp. c1450 (?c1425) St. Elizabeth of Spalbeck in Anglia (1885) 8 109 Sche..strekith oute hir fynger & puttith to hir eyen..as sche wolde graue hem oute or bore hem in. 1483 Cath. Angl. 163/2 To Grave, cespitare, fodere. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. xviii. 14 Maye the springes off waters be grauen awaye. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. iv. 2 Stronge diches are grauen on euery syde off it. 1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour Prol. l. 278 in Wks. (1931) I That sors..Off Hylicone..That Longeous..did graue in tyll his syde. 1557 Rec. Scotter Manor in E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (at cited word) No man shall graue any turves in thest car nor in Rany[how] vpon payne for euery dayes work, iijs iiijd. 1560 Bible (Geneva) Isa. xxii. 16 He that..graueth an habitacion for him self in a rocke. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 74 Wee grave up a rownde sodde with a spade. 1748 G. Stovin in Philos. Trans. 1747 (Royal Soc.) 44 571 The Pit he was graveing Peat in. 1794 Trans. Soc. Arts 12 126 And the earth [was] graved up, where each plant was to stand, one spit deep. 1884 Good Words 25 76 Out on the top was an old man graving turf. 1896 M. Beaumont Joan Seaton 61 ‘So he graved that [a dike] to carry my water off from t' beck.’ < as lemmas |
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