单词 | bruke |
释义 | † bruken. Obsolete. 1. A kind of locust or its wingless larva; an insect, grub, or caterpillar destructive to crops or other foliage; = Bruchus n. 1.Recorded earliest in bruke worm.Chiefly with reference to Biblical use. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Orthoptera > family Locustidae > member of (locust) > in immature stage brukea1382 Bruchusa1398 voetganger1824 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. li. 14 Y shal fulfille thee of men, as with bruc werm [L. brucho]. a1425 (a1382) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Lev. xi. 22 As is bruk [L.V. bruke; L. brucus] in his kynde, that is the kynde of locust er it haue wenges. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) civ. §32. 371 He sayd & the locust come and the bruyk;..The locust is modire of the bruyk: thai ere litill bestis, bot thai ere ful noyous. 1610 Bible (Douay) II. Joel i. 4 The residue of the locust hath the bruke [L. bruchus] eaten. 1672 V. Mullineaux tr. J. E. Nieremberg Treat. Temporal & Eternal iii. i. 234 And therefore unto the four Monarchies may be fitly applyed that which was foretold by the Prophet Joel, What was left by the Eruke was eaten by the Locust, what was left by the Locust was eaten by the Bruke, and what was left by the Bruke was devoured by the Blast. 2. English regional (northern). A field cricket. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Orthoptera > family Gryllidae > member of (cricket) cricketa1325 fire cricket1510 grylle1555 wood-cricket1774 grillo1845 bruke1846 1846 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Bruck, a field-cricket. North. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1382 |
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