单词 | white ash |
释义 | white ashn.1 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > ash and allies > [noun] ashc700 fraynec1325 wood-browna1400 wild ash1552 white ash1578 manna tree1665 black ash1673 white ash1683 water ash1709 manna ash1715 hoop-ash1763 red ash1773 shrew-ash1776 blue ash1783 swamp ash1794 weeping ash1807 green ash1810 cockscomb ash1850 Oregon ash1857 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. lxx. 748 Some call it Sorbus aucuparia..: in English, Quickebeame, feelde Ashe, wild Ashe, and white Ashe. b. An ash tree native to eastern North America, Fraxinus americana, widely cultivated for its timber; (also) the strong, pale wood of this tree, now favoured especially for the manufacture of baseball bats (frequently attributive). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > ash and allies > [noun] ashc700 fraynec1325 wood-browna1400 wild ash1552 white ash1578 manna tree1665 black ash1673 white ash1683 water ash1709 manna ash1715 hoop-ash1763 red ash1773 shrew-ash1776 blue ash1783 swamp ash1794 weeping ash1807 green ash1810 cockscomb ash1850 Oregon ash1857 1683 in New Hampsh. Hist. Soc. Coll. (1866) VIII. 146 [They] did feloniously..use about one cord of white ash. 1785 M. Cutler in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1 492 Fraxinus..The White Ash. The Red Ash. The Black Ash. The Prickley Ash. 1819 Provinc. Statutes Lower-Canada IX. 350 White Ash Oars to be three and a half inches square on the loom, and five inches broad on the blade. 1882 Garden 23 Sept. 273/1 The white Ash of the United States may be taken as the type of most of the American kinds. 1905 H. B. Ayres & W. W. Ashe Southern Appalachian Forests (U.S. Geol. Surv.) 40 The white ash becomes 130 feet in height and 40 inches in diameter, and is one of the most common and important trees. 1950 Chicago Tribune 27 Apr. iii. 10/1 Under each cutting spindle is placed a block of white ash. 2011 R. Cross Physics Baseball & Softball ii. 21 About eight growth rings per inch in a white ash bat seems to be favored by most players. c. Chiefly Australian. Any of various other trees thought to resemble the white ash, or producing similar timber, esp. Eucalyptus fraxinoides (family Myrtaceae); (also) the wood of any of these trees. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > eucalyptus trees yellow box1662 gum tree1676 white gum tree1733 whip-stick1782 peppermint1790 red gum tree1790 red mahogany1798 white gum1798 box1801 blue gum1802 eucalyptus1809 box tree1819 black-butted gum1820 bloodwood1827 white ash1830 blackbutt1833 morrel1837 mountain ash1837 mallee scrub1845 apple gum1846 flooded gum1847 Moreton Bay ash1847 mallee1848 swamp gum1852 box-gum1855 manna gum1855 white top1856 river gum1860 grey box1861 woolly butt1862 marlock1863 fever tree1867 red ironbark1867 river white gum1867 karri1870 yellow jacket1876 eucalypt1877 yapunyah1878 coolibah1879 scribbly gum1883 forest mahogany1884 yellow jack1884 rose gum1885 Jimmy Low1887 nankeen gum1889 slaty gum1889 sugar-gum1889 apple box1890 Murray red gum1895 creek-gum1898 eucalyptian1901 forest red gum1904 river red gum1920 napunyah1921 whitewash gum1923 ghost gum1928 snow gum1928 Sydney blue gum1932 salmon gum1934 lapunyah1940 1830 D. Don in Edinb. New Philos. Mag. 9 92 P[latylophus] trifoliata... White Ash colonis Anglicis. 1898 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 23 412 Eucalyptus fraxinoides, sp. n... Because of its resemblance to American Ash it goes under the name of White Ash. 1900 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 25 109 Eucalyptus stricta... have received this species from Mr R.H. Cambage from the top of Pigeon-house Mountain..near Milton. It is known locally as ‘White Ash’. 1926 Queensland Agric. Jrnl. 25 435 Flindersia Bourjotiana..White Ash. 1951 C. J. J. Watson N. Queensland Building Timbers (Queensland Forestry Service) (new ed.) 13 (table) Queensland Silver Ash (Ash, White Ash, Mountain Ash), Flindersia bourjotiana... Northern Silver Ash (White Ash, Ash), Flindersia pubescens. 1963 C. Burgess Blue Mountain Gums 41 ‘Blue mountain ash’, ‘white ash’ or ‘smooth-barked mountain ash’ was described by R.T. Baker in 1899 and named Eucalyptus oreades. 1985 P. Carey Illywhacker 117 We would want mountain ash or white ash for spars. 2006 D. J. Boland et al. Forest Trees Austral. (ed. 5) 559/1 The group, which includes white ash (E. fraxinoides), has buds with flexuose filaments. 2. Nautical. An oar; oars collectively. Now rare.Recorded earliest in white-ash breeze n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > rowing apparatus > [noun] > oar ruddereOE oareOE remea1350 white ash1837 1837 Detroit Free Press 26 July 2/4 By dint of what watermen sometimes term a ‘white ash breeze’, we had the gratification..of visiting..the spring. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxxxi. 394 This clumsy lubber was striving to free his white-ash. 1866 Harpers Mag. Dec. 105/2 Second mate's boat desiring to row, we went to the rear and each boat took to the ‘white ash’—that is, to the oars. 1883 Helena (Montana) Independent 22 July 1/8 As he forged out into the stream he made a hasty survey of the situation, and then plied the white ash with redoubled energy. 1918 Great Lakes Recruit Aug. 21/2 The coxswains, the gunners' mates, the armed guard, and the seamen guard are there plying the white ash. Compounds white-ash breeze n. Nautical humorous the propulsion provided by rowing, resorted to when no real breeze is forthcoming; cf. sense 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > [noun] > rowing > impetus of an oar white-ash breeze1837 1837White ash breeze [see sense 2]. 1845 Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 7 May The ‘white-ash breeze’ continued to lend its aid—on they glided—cheered by the prospect of soon reaching the Rock. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxxxi. 394 There she slides, now! Hurrah for the white-ash breeze! 1939 H. W. Thompson Body, Boots & Britches vii. 173 Their British captors made the Americans provide a ‘white-ash breeze’ by doing all the rowing. 1994 J. R. Stilgoe Alongshore xii. 374 Many arrived under the ‘white-ash breeze’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). white ashn.2 Chemistry. Now historical. Refined sodium carbonate, prepared from black ash (black ash n.2) by washing with water followed by evaporation. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > organic salts > [noun] > carbonates > sodium carbonate nitrea1400 soda1558 white ash1837 soda-ash1839 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [noun] > ashes or cinders > specific ashes soap-ashes?1520 gravelled ashes1579 bone ash1594 cupel-dusta1626 polverine1662 peat ash1669 kelp1679 clar1683 cupel-ashes1683 wood-ash1748 bone earth1770 kelp-ashes1834 white ash1837 weed ash1841 fly ash1931 1837 R. Meeson & W. N. Welsby Rep. Cases Courts of Exchequer I. 634 The plaintiff [sc. James Muspratt] was.., and still is, a manufacturer and trader and dealer in certain alkalies, to wit, a certain alkali called black ash, and a certain other alkali called white ash. 1843 G. Dodd Days at Factories 197 This alkali, or ‘white ash’, as it is called, made from salt, has driven kelp and barilla out of use. 1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. White Ash Finishers, men in the chemical industry..engaged upon the manufacture of soda ash..from salts derived from black ash. 1913 H. E. Roscoe & C. Schorlemmer Treat. Chem. (ed. 5) II. 286 English alkali makers..produced in quantity not only Leblanc's ‘soda crystals’, but also a new and much stronger alkali, namely the white-ash or soda-ash. 1965 A. E. Musson Enterprise in Soap & Chemicals vii. 72 They were also contracting to buy soda ash, and must have had plant not only for causticizing white ash..but also for refining black ash, by lixiviation with water, followed by evaporation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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