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单词 trevis
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trevisn.

Brit. /ˈtrɛvɪs/, U.S. /ˈtrɛvəs/
Forms:

α. late Middle English traveys, 1700s travice, 1700s–1800s travisse, 1800s travise, 1800s traviss, 1800s– travis Brit. /ˈtravɪs/, U.S. /ˈtrævəs/; Scottish pre-1700 traiffeis, pre-1700 traveis, pre-1700 1700s traves, 1700s– travis, 1800s traiviss, 1800s travesse, 1800s– traivis, 1900s– travus; English regional 1800s travase (southern), 1800s– travvis (East Anglian), 1900s– travus.

β. 1500s trevys, 1700s treves, 1800s trevise, 1800s– trevis; Scottish pre-1700 trevies, pre-1700 1700s treves, pre-1700 1700s– trevis, pre-1700 1800s trevas, 1800s trevesse, 1800s trevise, 1800s–1900s treviss, 1900s– treffice.

γ. Scottish 1700s triffice, 1700s trivice, 1800s trivess, 1800s triviss, 1800s–1900s trivage.

δ. English regional 1800s tribeetch (northern), 1800s triveetch (northern), 1900s– trivitch.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: traverse n.
Etymology: Originally a variant of traverse n. (compare β. forms at that entry), now distinguished in form in the senses below. Compare earlier trave n. 1a and later travail n.2Compare Middle French travers (1472 in sense 1). The form trivage at γ. forms shows affrication and subsequent voicing of the final fricative, whereas the δ. forms show only affrication.
Chiefly British (now rare).
1. A narrow strongly-built stall or pen formed of rails or bars in which an animal (typically a horse) can be confined in order to limit its movement during shoeing, veterinary treatment, etc.; a livestock crush (crush n. Additions). Cf. trave n. 1, travail n.2 Now rare (chiefly historical).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > shoeing of horses > [noun] > frame to hold horse
travec1405
trevis?a1500
travail1585
traversea1825
stock1875
?a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 617/19 Tramerium, traveys. Ergasterium idem est.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 283/1 Trevys to shoe a wylde horse in, trauayl a cheual.
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Travice, a small Inclosure..consisting of four Pillars or Posts, kept together by cross Poles, for keeping in and holding unruly Horses in the time of Shoeing, or any other Operation.
1838 G. Skeavington Mod. Syst. Farriery xvii. 495/2 If the habit should be confirmed..it becomes necessary to cast him [sc. a horse], or put him in the trevis.
1958 Admin. Rep. Director of Agric. 1957 (Ceylon) iv. C9 The first unit at Kandakadu is almost complete and includes milking sheds capable of accommodating 1,200 cows in relays..a cattle walk, calf sheds, night paddocks, a trevis for service, and a wire-shoot for transport across the Kandakadu Ela.
1995 B. Spencer in J. Clark Medieval Horse & Its Equipm. 19 Dent..reproduces a German woodcut of 1584 showing a horse held in a roofed travis while a farrier pours a drench down its throat—a reminder of the other main purpose of the travis, to hold the horse still during veterinary treatment.
2. A partition separating two stalls in a stable, cowshed, etc. (cf. traverse n. 6). Hence: (chiefly Scottish) the stall itself (cf. traverse n. 7). Now rare.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > stabling > stable > barrier in stable
trevis1501
bail1844
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > stabling > stall
horse-bay1582
trevis1756
box1798
trevis board1833
headpost1844
horse-box1846
stallage1861
feeding-box1883
1501 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 29 For ij heltir stalkis and mending of ane trevas.
1706 in A. W. C. Hallen Acct. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 427 Putting up the triffice in the stable for the 2 new coatchhorss.
1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) iv. 97 There were fifty-eight treveses in one end [of the stables].
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian i, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 9 Beyond the ‘treviss’, which formed one side of the stall, stood a cow.
1896 J. Lumsden Battle of Dunbar & Prestonpans 13 Her neibor in the nearer triviss The maist redoubted naig alive is!
1981 Jrnl. Farm Buildings Assoc. No. 29 28 Creating young stock pens in part of the north range..by taking down the non-load bearing walls; breaking out the concrete trevisses/troughs; filling in the grimps.

Compounds

General use as a modifier (chiefly in sense 2), as in trevis board, trevis post, etc.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > stabling > stall
horse-bay1582
trevis1756
box1798
trevis board1833
headpost1844
horse-box1846
stallage1861
feeding-box1883
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. ii. xxxiv. 526 1½-inch trevise-boards to be mortised into the hind post, which must be set 8 feet from the front wall.
1885 Dundee Courier & Argus 3 Oct. An Arab steed is seen over the rather English looking trevis boarding.
1972 D. Toulmin Hard Shining Corn 32 ‘Aye man,’ says Rab, and banged his steel comb against the travis post. The post was poke-marked with years of banging.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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