| 单词 | vinefretter |
| 释义 | > see alsoalso refers to : vine-frettern. > as lemmasvine-fretter 1. †(a) A devourer. Obsolete. (b) That which gnaws, eats away, or corrodes. Obsolete except in vine-fretter: see quot. 1608. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > loss of material > eating away > that which fretter?1523 ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxii Terre..is a frettar and no heylar without it be medled with some of these [sc. oil, butter, or grease]. 1568–9 Act 11 Eliz. in R. Bolton Statutes Ireland (1621) 298 The fretter of our lives and substance. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 105 Vine-fretters, which are a kind of Catterpillers, or little hayrie wormes with many feete, that eate Vines when they begin to shoote. 1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. cxxx. 432 Other Farriers vse the powder of Risagallo, or Risagre, but it is a great deale too strong a fretter. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tavelliere, the little worme called a Wood-fretter. 1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 Misc. Ess. 172/2 Reaumur has proved that vine fretters do not want an union of sexes for the multiplication of their kind. 1895 Dublin Rev. Oct. 444 He considered the generation of vine fretters from a new point of view. < see also as lemmas |
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