单词 | by square |
释义 | > as lemmasby square a. An implement or tool for determining, measuring, or setting out right angles, or for testing the exactness of artificers' work, usually consisting of two pieces or arms set at right angles to each other, but sometimes with the arms or sides hinged or pivoted so as to measure any angle; esp. one used by carpenters or joiners. Frequently without article in phrase by square. Also figurative. bevel-square, mitre-square, set-square, T- or tee-square, trial- square or try-square: see these words. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for marking out work > [noun] > squares squarea1300 trying-square1579 mitre square1676 mitre1678 centre square1683 box square?1710 square rule1726 T square1785 set square1854 try-square1877 the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > for measuring angles > right angles squarea1300 squire1382 rectangulometer1847 α. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis Ded. sig. Aij Hauing no English writer beefore mee in this kind of poëtrye with whose squire I should leauel my syllables.1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. i. sig. N7 But temperaunce..with golden squire Betwixt them both can measure out a meane.1620 F. Quarles Feast for Wormes (1638) 29 Fate..tels when dayes, and moneths, and termes expire, Meas'ring the lives of Mortals by her squire.β. 1412 in J. Raine Fabric Rolls York Minster (1859) 432/1 Pro levells, Squares, et reules, xxd.a1562 in Norf. Antiq. Misc. II. 5 A square and a compass.1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 40 This enforceth Magistrates..with vnskilfull Carpenters, to vse the square and the compasse,..not to build but to ouerthrowe.1618 P. Holderus tr. J. van Oldenbarneveld Barneuel's Apol. sig. E2v I beseech you, that the stone is to be fitted to the square, not the square to the stone.1660 tr. I. Barrow Euclide's Elements i. 15 The practise of this and the following is easily performed by the help of a square.a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 35 The poor mechanic wanders home, Collects the square, the level, and the line.1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 252 A poet does not work by square or line, As smiths and joiners perfect a design.1826 D. Booth Art of Brewing (ed. 2) 196 When you have made the face of the roller as true as the square and the chisel can render it.a1887 R. Jefferies Toilers of Field (1892) 173 A somewhat superior description is built in the shape of a carpenter's ‘square’.a1300 Cursor Mundi 2231 Do we wel and make a toure Wit suire [v.rr. squire, squyre] and scantilon sa euen, Þat may reche heghur þan heuen. c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) i. §12. 7 Next the forseide cercle of the A. b. c...is Marked the skale, in Maner of 2 Squyres. 1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 4906 Fyrst ye shal a squyre take, A Squyre off a carpenter; And ye shal vse thys maner. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 135 This werk is to be mad by cumpas, and thilk werk..bi squyer and suche othere. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. ii. 86 The carpenters ben signefyed by the dolabre or squyer. 1553 in Archaeol. (1796) XII. 341 John Keyme, smith, for 40 socketts, 8 sqwiers, withe other necessaries. 1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 35 Holding his file in right hand hansomly, In left his paire of compasses and squire. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §373 Take a Turreted Lamp of Tinne, made in the forme of a Squire. 1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked liii. §527 They search out..the straightness of an angle, with a squire. < as lemmas |
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