canvasn.

Brit.

/ˈkanvəs/, U.S.

/ˈkænvəs/

Forms: Middle English canevas, Middle English kaneuas, canivas, Middle English–1500s canwas, Middle English–1600s canuas, 1500s canvesse, canues, ( cannefas), 1500s–1600s canves, 1500s–1700s canvase, (1600s canuase, canvasse, canuasse, 1700s dialect canvest, cannas, canness), Middle English– canvas, 1600s– canvass.

Etymology: Middle English canevas, < Old Northern French canevas (Central Old French chanevas) = Provencal canabas, Spanish cañamazo, Italian canavaccio < late Latin type *cannabāceus ‘hempen’, < cannabis hemp. (From Latin adjectives in -āceus were made, in Romanic, adjectives and nouns of augmentative and pejorative force, e.g. Latin populus, populāceus, Italian popolaccio, English populace.) The word has entered into most of the European languages. The spelling canvas , with one s , plural canvases (compare atlases ) is, it will be seen, more etymological than canvass , and now predominates; this spelling is also better used in the verb with the literal sense of ‘furnish or line with canvas’, whence canvased , canvasing ; but the old derivative verb with sense ‘to toss in a sheet, discuss, debate, solicit votes’, is now always spelt canvass n., and this spelling is retained in the verbal noun in turn derived from it, as ‘the electoral canvass’.

a. A strong or coarse unbleached cloth made of hemp or flax, used (in different forms) as the material for sails of ships, for tents, and by painters for oil-paintings, formerly also for clothing, etc.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > canvas

canvas1260

canmesse1570

1260 et seq. in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (1866) (modernized text) II. 511.

c1325 Coer de L. 2645 A melle he hadde..Four sayles wer theretoo..With canevas layd wel al bout.

c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 570 Canevasium, Canevas.

c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1714) 19 A pore Cote under their uttermost Garment, made of grete Canvas.

1537 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 133 My best couerlett lyned wyth canwas.

1608 S. Rowlands Humors Looking Glasse 6 Sattin and silke was pawned long a goe, And now in canuase, no knight can him knowe.

1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. Introd. Pref. sig. a5^v The fashion, that..allows our Gallants to wear fine Laces upon Canvass and Buckram.

1871 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Odyssey I. v. 132 Calypso..brought him store Of canvas, which he fitly shaped to sails.

b. under canvas: in a tent or tents.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > tent > [adverb] > in tents

under canvas1864

1864 Soc. Science Rev. 137 A life under canvas in the finer seasons of the year.

187. F. Griffiths Eng. Army i. 26 The residue lived all the year round under canvas.

2. A piece of canvas used for various purposes.

†a. A sheet, covering or screen; a filtering or bolting cloth; a blind for a carriage window, etc. Obsolete.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > straining > [noun] > strainer

strainer1326

renge?1362

canvasc1386

strain1432

searcec1440

sye1468

runnera1475

ranger1485

renger1510

searce-net1526

colatory?1541

range1542

sight1559

sythe1568

colature1577

tamis1601

sile-dish1668

hurdle1725

kenting1725

stamin1725

tammy1769

tamin1847

vat-neta1884

chinois1937

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > a covering > cloth or textile > others spec.

sendala1225

canvasc1386

sailcloth1774

veil1781

korowai1820

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > parts of > blind(s)

coach-leaves1631

canvas1753

c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 387 And on the floor y-cast a canevas [v.r. kaneuas, canvas].

1411 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 19 A reed bedde of worsteyd..with a canvase, a materas.

1483 W. Caxton in tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 397/2 There was a canuas that hynge ouer hys heed.

1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 27 Wett a cannefas in Endiue water..and laye it vpon the lyuer.

1582 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Compend. Rationall Secretes iii. xlii. 61 Straine it harde through a Canues.

1667 Sir R. Moray in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 474 All the interposed Canvasses.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xxvii. 193 On the contrary side of the chariot (his canvass being still up on that next me).

1760 S. Fielding Ophelia II. xlviii. 240 A Chariot..having Canvasses to let down.

b. A covering over the ends of a racing-boat to prevent water from being shipped; hence canvas-length (see Compounds 3).

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > devices to protect ship from weather > covering of canvas or tarpaulin > at ends of racing boat

canvas1880

1880 Newspaper. At the Farm he led by his forward canvas.

1887 St. James's G. 28 Mar. 13 Not a canvas-length (about 15 ft.) separated the boats.

c. Boxing, etc. A covering over the floor of a boxing or wrestling ring; hence by metonymy, such a floor. to hit (or kiss) the canvas: to be floored in a contest.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > box [verb (intransitive)] > be floored

to hit (or kiss) the canvas1910

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > ring > covering

canvas1910

1910 Nevada State Jrnl. 5 July 2/4 The fifteenth round lasted two minutes and 27 seconds. Out of this Jeffries was on the canvas 26 seconds.

1919 Toledo (Ohio) News-Bee 5 July 12/2 A salvo of heavy whacks from right and left again made Jess kiss the canvas.

1922 Ring June 21/1 He never got out o' the way of it and the first thing that hits the canvas is the back of his neck.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §699/1 Canvas, resin, rosin, rosin-covered canvas, the floor of the ring, hence a prize ring.

1967 C. Potok Chosen i. ii. 45 I hit the canvas so hard I rattled my toenails.

1977 Westindian World 3 June 19/1 Frazier caught Ali with a vicious right hand which sent Ali crashing to the canvas for only the second time in his career.

3. spec. As material for sails; sail-cloth; hence, sails collectively. under canvas: with sails spread.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > collectively

sailc1385

canvas1609

linensa1640

cloth1651

white wings1778

clothing1798

muslin1822

sailage1889

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > material of sails

sail canvas1482

polaine1582

canvas1609

society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > with sails set [phrase]

under sailc893

canvas1873

1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xv. 112 From the ladder tackle, washes off a canuas clymer.

a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) Sol. vii. 38 Pilots that are wise Proportion out their Canvase to the skies.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 59 To spread the flying Canvass .

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 86 From No. 1 to 6 is termed double, and above No. 6 single, canvas.

1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage iii. 32 We were obliged to reduce our canvas.

c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 52 Canvas is made in lengths of 40 feet called bolts..The stoutest is called No. 1, and so on in fineness to No. 8.

1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xv. 242 The small boat was put under canvas again.

a. spec. As material on which oil-paintings are executed; hence, a piece of canvas prepared to receive a painting.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > surface for painting or drawing > canvas

toile?1578

cloth1695

canvas1705

bishop's lengthc1870

pata1948

1705 N. Tate Triumph 13 Then try your Skill: a well-prim'd Canvass stretch.

1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. 156 Damp, which is such a prejudice to the pictures on canvas or wood.

1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxx. 2 Mark in what manner the canvass is filled up.

1805 N. Nicholls Let. in Corr. with Gray (1843) 43 A power..of painting a scene, by judicious detail, as if it were on canvas.

b. An oil-painting; also, paintings collectively.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > oil-painting > an oil-painting > on canvas

canvas1764

toile1874

1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 8 The canvas glow'd beyond even Nature warm.

1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. ii. i. 177 Receptacles for the immortal canvass of Italian..art.

1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art ii. 125 Cheques..freely offered, for such and such canvasses.

1882 Athenæum No. 2866. 439 The most important serial or cyclical group by Mr. E. Burne Jones..consists of six canvases in all.

c. figurative.

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a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 305 Striving to imprint..upon the imagination so much..as her coarse canvass can take off.

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. iii. 47 The canvas of the fancy is but of a certain extent.

1845 J. H. Newman Ess. Devel. Christian Doctr. Introd. 7 History..does not bring out clearly upon the canvass the details.

d. [French.] (See quots. and cf. Littré.)

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1724 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) To Canvass,..Metaphor taken from beating Hemp, there being nothing more Laborious) to sift, or examine, or search diligently into a Business.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Canvas is us'd, especially among the French, for the Model, or first Words whereon an Air, or Piece of Musick is compos'd, and given to a Poet to regulate and finish. The Canvas of a Song, is certain Notes of the Composer, which shew the Poet the Measure of the Verses he is to make. Thus, Du Lot says, he has Canvas for ten Sonnets against the Muses.

1849 in B. H. Smart Walker's Pronouncing Dict. (ed. 3)

1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.

5. A clear unbleached cloth so woven as to present the appearance of close and regular latticework, used for working tapestry with the needle.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [noun] > for embroidery or tapestry

groundc1386

champa1450

cammes1540

canvas1611

working canvas1612

Penelope canvas1851

Aida1877

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Gaze, Cushion Canuas; the thinne Canuas that serues women for a ground vnto their Cushions, or Purseworke, etc.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Working canvas, for botts or cushions, narrow, broad, and broadest.

†6. Hawking. (An early use, of which the precise meaning is now obscure.) Cf. canvas v. 1.

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1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Bij^v Such canuaces made, such stales set, such traynes layde... by the factious, to bring their Superiours into contempt.

a. Of canvas.

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canvas1563

canvassy1892

1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. ii. f. 49 Straine it through a newe canues clothe.

1627 M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt 10 Barkes..with their canuase wings.

1720 J. Gay Trivia iii, in Poems I. 170 Thick-rising tents a canvass city build.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xvi. 167 Canvas moccasins..for every one of the party.

†b. Having the colour or appearance of canvas; light grey. Cf. canvas-back n. 2. Obsolete.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [adjective] > light grey

walnyedc1440

canvas1486

bone-grey1884

1486 Bk. St. Albans A vij b Hawkes haue white maill, Canuasmaill, or Rede maill..Canuas maill is betwene white maill and Iron maill.

c. Pertaining to a canvas booth at a fair.

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1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 121/2 A fair, or as we call it, a canvas clown.

1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 139/1 Strolling actors..As long as they are acting in a booth..are called canvas actors.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

canvas-breadth n.

canvas-cutter n.

canvas-dauber n.

ΚΠ

1806 ‘P. Pindar’ Tristia 50 Behold the canvas-dauber!

canvas-stretcher n.

C2.

canvas-broad adj.

ΚΠ

1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 27 (Jam.) The shade beneath a Canuess-braid outthrow.

C3.

canvas-bag n. a bag made of canvas; also Military (see quot. 1708).

ΚΠ

1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Canvas-bags or Earth-bags (in Fortif.) are Baggs fill'd with Earth, and us'd to raise [or repair] a Breast-work in haste.

1724 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) Canvass-Bags,..Bags filled with Earth, used to raise a Parapet in haste.

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxx. 190 Guineas in a canvass bag.

† canvas-climber n. Obsolete a sailor.

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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun]

shipmanc900

seamanOE

buscarlOE

shipperc1100

ship-gumec1275

marinerc1300

skipper1390

marinela1400

waterman1421

maryneller1470

seafarer1513

sea-fardingera1550

navigator1574

marinec1575

sailer1585

Triton1589

Neptunist1593

canvas-climber1609

sea-crab1609

tar-lubber1610

Neptunian1620

salt-rover1620

sailora1642

tarpaulin1647

otter1650

water dog1652

tarpauliana1656

Jack1659

tar1676

sea-animal1707

Jack tar1709

sailor-man1761

tarry-breeks1786

hearty1790

ocean-farera1806

tarry-jacket1822

Jacky1826

nautical1831

salt water1839

matelotc1847

knight of the tar-brush1866

main-yard man1867

gobby1883

tarry-John1888

blue jersey1889

lobscouser1889

flat-foot1897

handyman1899

1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xv. 112 From the ladder tackle, washes off a canuas clymer.

canvas duck n. U.S. = canvas-back n. 2.

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1813 J. K. Paulding Lay of Sc. Fiddle (1814) v. 102 Twelve canvas ducks, at morning play, By that discharge all found their grave.

canvas-length n. (see 2b above).

canvas-top n. U.S. a wagon with a canvas tilt.

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1901 S. E. White Westerners xix. 174 Molly was by now..used to the narrow confines of her canvass-top.

Draft additions January 2005

canvasman n. U.S. a person employed in a circus or other itinerant show to erect, take down, and maintain its tents.

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1869 Decatur (Illinois) Republican 20 May The proprietors of that house had refused to entertain his canvas-men, roust-a-bouts and grooms, upon the ground that their hotel was for a different class of men.

1999 Esquire July 25 Ashley..was, among other things, the canvasman of his own two-ring circus at the age of nine.

Draft additions December 2005

canvas town n. a settlement composed primarily of tents; a camp; cf. tent city n. at tent n.¹ Compounds 2.

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1763 J. Hoole tr. T. Tasso Jerusalem Delivered II. xvii. 178 To these succeed the wand'ring Arab train, Who shift their canvas towns from plain to plain.

1862 J. A. Patterson Gold Fields Victoria 195 Though long a ‘canvas town’, Maryborough has made considerable strides.

1995 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 19 Dec. 19 They erect the temporary canvas towns which become home for the holidays.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	canvas
释义	canvasn. Brit. /ˈkanvəs/, U.S. /ˈkænvəs/ Forms: Middle English canevas, Middle English kaneuas, canivas, Middle English–1500s canwas, Middle English–1600s canuas, 1500s canvesse, canues, ( cannefas), 1500s–1600s canves, 1500s–1700s canvase, (1600s canuase, canvasse, canuasse, 1700s dialect canvest, cannas, canness), Middle English– canvas, 1600s– canvass. Etymology: Middle English canevas, < Old Northern French canevas (Central Old French chanevas) = Provencal canabas, Spanish cañamazo, Italian canavaccio < late Latin type cannabāceus ‘hempen’, < cannabis* hemp. (From Latin adjectives in -āceus were made, in Romanic, adjectives and nouns of augmentative and pejorative force, e.g. Latin populus, populāceus, Italian popolaccio, English populace.) The word has entered into most of the European languages. The spelling canvas , with one s , plural canvases (compare atlases ) is, it will be seen, more etymological than canvass , and now predominates; this spelling is also better used in the verb with the literal sense of ‘furnish or line with canvas’, whence canvased , canvasing ; but the old derivative verb with sense ‘to toss in a sheet, discuss, debate, solicit votes’, is now always spelt canvass n., and this spelling is retained in the verbal noun in turn derived from it, as ‘the electoral canvass’. 1. a. A strong or coarse unbleached cloth made of hemp or flax, used (in different forms) as the material for sails of ships, for tents, and by painters for oil-paintings, formerly also for clothing, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > canvas canvas1260 canmesse1570 1260 et seq. in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (1866) (modernized text) II. 511. c1325 Coer de L. 2645 A melle he hadde..Four sayles wer theretoo..With canevas layd wel al bout. c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 570 Canevasium, Canevas. c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1714) 19 A pore Cote under their uttermost Garment, made of grete Canvas. 1537 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 133 My best couerlett lyned wyth canwas. 1608 S. Rowlands Humors Looking Glasse 6 Sattin and silke was pawned long a goe, And now in canuase, no knight can him knowe. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. Introd. Pref. sig. a5^v The fashion, that..allows our Gallants to wear fine Laces upon Canvass and Buckram. 1871 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Odyssey I. v. 132 Calypso..brought him store Of canvas, which he fitly shaped to sails. b. under canvas: in a tent or tents. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > tent > [adverb] > in tents under canvas1864 1864 Soc. Science Rev. 137 A life under canvas in the finer seasons of the year. 187. F. Griffiths Eng. Army i. 26 The residue lived all the year round under canvas. 2. A piece of canvas used for various purposes. †a. A sheet, covering or screen; a filtering or bolting cloth; a blind for a carriage window, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > straining > [noun] > strainer strainer1326 renge?1362 canvasc1386 strain1432 searcec1440 sye1468 runnera1475 ranger1485 renger1510 searce-net1526 colatory?1541 range1542 sight1559 sythe1568 colature1577 tamis1601 sile-dish1668 hurdle1725 kenting1725 stamin1725 tammy1769 tamin1847 vat-neta1884 chinois1937 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > a covering > cloth or textile > others spec. sendala1225 canvasc1386 sailcloth1774 veil1781 korowai1820 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > parts of > blind(s) coach-leaves1631 canvas1753 c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 387 And on the floor y-cast a canevas [v.r. kaneuas, canvas]. 1411 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 19 A reed bedde of worsteyd..with a canvase, a materas. 1483 W. Caxton in tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 397/2 There was a canuas that hynge ouer hys heed. 1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 27 Wett a cannefas in Endiue water..and laye it vpon the lyuer. 1582 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Compend. Rationall Secretes iii. xlii. 61 Straine it harde through a Canues. 1667 Sir R. Moray in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 474 All the interposed Canvasses. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xxvii. 193 On the contrary side of the chariot (his canvass being still up on that next me). 1760 S. Fielding Ophelia II. xlviii. 240 A Chariot..having Canvasses to let down. b. A covering over the ends of a racing-boat to prevent water from being shipped; hence canvas-length (see Compounds 3). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > devices to protect ship from weather > covering of canvas or tarpaulin > at ends of racing boat canvas1880 1880 Newspaper. At the Farm he led by his forward canvas. 1887 St. James's G. 28 Mar. 13 Not a canvas-length (about 15 ft.) separated the boats. c. Boxing, etc. A covering over the floor of a boxing or wrestling ring; hence by metonymy, such a floor. to hit (or kiss) the canvas: to be floored in a contest. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > box [verb (intransitive)] > be floored to hit (or kiss) the canvas1910 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > ring > covering canvas1910 1910 Nevada State Jrnl. 5 July 2/4 The fifteenth round lasted two minutes and 27 seconds. Out of this Jeffries was on the canvas 26 seconds. 1919 Toledo (Ohio) News-Bee 5 July 12/2 A salvo of heavy whacks from right and left again made Jess kiss the canvas. 1922 Ring June 21/1 He never got out o' the way of it and the first thing that hits the canvas is the back of his neck. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §699/1 Canvas, resin, rosin, rosin-covered canvas, the floor of the ring, hence a prize ring. 1967 C. Potok Chosen i. ii. 45 I hit the canvas so hard I rattled my toenails. 1977 Westindian World 3 June 19/1 Frazier caught Ali with a vicious right hand which sent Ali crashing to the canvas for only the second time in his career. 3. spec. As material for sails; sail-cloth; hence, sails collectively. under canvas: with sails spread. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > collectively sailc1385 canvas1609 linensa1640 cloth1651 white wings1778 clothing1798 muslin1822 sailage1889 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > material of sails sail canvas1482 polaine1582 canvas1609 society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > with sails set [phrase] under sailc893 canvas1873 1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xv. 112 From the ladder tackle, washes off a canuas clymer. a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) Sol. vii. 38 Pilots that are wise Proportion out their Canvase to the skies. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 59 To spread the flying Canvass . View more context for this quotation 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 86 From No. 1 to 6 is termed double, and above No. 6 single, canvas. 1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage iii. 32 We were obliged to reduce our canvas. c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 52 Canvas is made in lengths of 40 feet called bolts..The stoutest is called No. 1, and so on in fineness to No. 8. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xv. 242 The small boat was put under canvas again. 4. a. spec. As material on which oil-paintings are executed; hence, a piece of canvas prepared to receive a painting. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > surface for painting or drawing > canvas toile?1578 cloth1695 canvas1705 bishop's lengthc1870 pata1948 1705 N. Tate Triumph 13 Then try your Skill: a well-prim'd Canvass stretch. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. 156 Damp, which is such a prejudice to the pictures on canvas or wood. 1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxx. 2 Mark in what manner the canvass is filled up. 1805 N. Nicholls Let. in Corr. with Gray (1843) 43 A power..of painting a scene, by judicious detail, as if it were on canvas. b. An oil-painting; also, paintings collectively. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > oil-painting > an oil-painting > on canvas canvas1764 toile1874 1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 8 The canvas glow'd beyond even Nature warm. 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. ii. i. 177 Receptacles for the immortal canvass of Italian..art. 1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art ii. 125 Cheques..freely offered, for such and such canvasses. 1882 Athenæum No. 2866. 439 The most important serial or cyclical group by Mr. E. Burne Jones..consists of six canvases in all. c. figurative. ΚΠ a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 305 Striving to imprint..upon the imagination so much..as her coarse canvass can take off. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. iii. 47 The canvas of the fancy is but of a certain extent. 1845 J. H. Newman Ess. Devel. Christian Doctr. Introd. 7 History..does not bring out clearly upon the canvass the details. d. [French.] (See quots. and cf. Littré.) ΚΠ 1724 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) To Canvass,..Metaphor taken from beating Hemp, there being nothing more Laborious) to sift, or examine, or search diligently into a Business. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Canvas is us'd, especially among the French, for the Model, or first Words whereon an Air, or Piece of Musick is compos'd, and given to a Poet to regulate and finish. The Canvas of a Song, is certain Notes of the Composer, which shew the Poet the Measure of the Verses he is to make. Thus, Du Lot says, he has Canvas for ten Sonnets against the Muses. 1849 in B. H. Smart Walker's Pronouncing Dict. (ed. 3) 1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. 5. A clear unbleached cloth so woven as to present the appearance of close and regular latticework, used for working tapestry with the needle. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [noun] > for embroidery or tapestry groundc1386 champa1450 cammes1540 canvas1611 working canvas1612 Penelope canvas1851 Aida1877 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Gaze, Cushion Canuas; the thinne Canuas that serues women for a ground vnto their Cushions, or Purseworke, etc. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Working canvas, for botts or cushions, narrow, broad, and broadest. †6. Hawking. (An early use, of which the precise meaning is now obscure.) Cf. canvas v. 1. ΚΠ 1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Bij^v Such canuaces made, such stales set, such traynes layde... by the factious, to bring their Superiours into contempt. 7. a. Of canvas. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from flax, hemp, or jute > [adjective] > canvas canvas1563 canvassy1892 1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. ii. f. 49 Straine it through a newe canues clothe. 1627 M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt 10 Barkes..with their canuase wings. 1720 J. Gay Trivia iii, in Poems I. 170 Thick-rising tents a canvass city build. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xvi. 167 Canvas moccasins..for every one of the party. †b. Having the colour or appearance of canvas; light grey. Cf. canvas-back n. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [adjective] > light grey walnyedc1440 canvas1486 bone-grey1884 1486 Bk. St. Albans A vij b Hawkes haue white maill, Canuasmaill, or Rede maill..Canuas maill is betwene white maill and Iron maill. c. Pertaining to a canvas booth at a fair. ΚΠ 1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 121/2 A fair, or as we call it, a canvas clown. 1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 139/1 Strolling actors..As long as they are acting in a booth..are called canvas actors. Compounds C1. General attributive. canvas-breadth n. canvas-cutter n. canvas-dauber n. ΚΠ 1806 ‘P. Pindar’ Tristia 50 Behold the canvas-dauber! canvas-stretcher n. C2. canvas-broad adj. ΚΠ 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 27 (Jam.) The shade beneath a Canuess-braid outthrow. C3. canvas-bag n. a bag made of canvas; also Military (see quot. 1708). ΚΠ 1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Canvas-bags or Earth-bags (in Fortif.) are Baggs fill'd with Earth, and us'd to raise [or repair] a Breast-work in haste. 1724 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) Canvass-Bags,..Bags filled with Earth, used to raise a Parapet in haste. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxx. 190 Guineas in a canvass bag. † canvas-climber n. Obsolete a sailor. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] shipmanc900 seamanOE buscarlOE shipperc1100 ship-gumec1275 marinerc1300 skipper1390 marinela1400 waterman1421 maryneller1470 seafarer1513 sea-fardingera1550 navigator1574 marinec1575 sailer1585 Triton1589 Neptunist1593 canvas-climber1609 sea-crab1609 tar-lubber1610 Neptunian1620 salt-rover1620 sailora1642 tarpaulin1647 otter1650 water dog1652 tarpauliana1656 Jack1659 tar1676 sea-animal1707 Jack tar1709 sailor-man1761 tarry-breeks1786 hearty1790 ocean-farera1806 tarry-jacket1822 Jacky1826 nautical1831 salt water1839 matelotc1847 knight of the tar-brush1866 main-yard man1867 gobby1883 tarry-John1888 blue jersey1889 lobscouser1889 flat-foot1897 handyman1899 1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xv. 112 From the ladder tackle, washes off a canuas clymer. canvas duck n. U.S. = canvas-back n. 2. ΚΠ 1813 J. K. Paulding Lay of Sc. Fiddle (1814) v. 102 Twelve canvas ducks, at morning play, By that discharge all found their grave. canvas-length n. (see 2b above). canvas-top n. U.S. a wagon with a canvas tilt. ΚΠ 1901 S. E. White Westerners xix. 174 Molly was by now..used to the narrow confines of her canvass-top. Draft additions January 2005 canvasman n. U.S. a person employed in a circus or other itinerant show to erect, take down, and maintain its tents. ΚΠ 1869 Decatur (Illinois) Republican 20 May The proprietors of that house had refused to entertain his canvas-men, roust-a-bouts and grooms, upon the ground that their hotel was for a different class of men. 1999 Esquire July 25 Ashley..was, among other things, the canvasman of his own two-ring circus at the age of nine. Draft additions December 2005 canvas town n. a settlement composed primarily of tents; a camp; cf. tent city n. at tent n.¹ Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1763 J. Hoole tr. T. Tasso Jerusalem Delivered II. xvii. 178 To these succeed the wand'ring Arab train, Who shift their canvas towns from plain to plain. 1862 J. A. Patterson Gold Fields Victoria 195 Though long a ‘canvas town’, Maryborough has made considerable strides. 1995 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 19 Dec. 19 They erect the temporary canvas towns which become home for the holidays. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2022). canvasv. Brit. /ˈkanvəs/, U.S. /ˈkænvəs/ Forms: Also canvass. Etymology: < canvas n.: see also canvass v., which has the same origin, but is unconnected in sense, and is now never spelt canvas . For spelling, see note to canvas n. †1. Hawking. To entangle or catch in a net (see canvas n. 6); also transferred and figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > [verb (transitive)] > other hawking procedures enseamc1450 imp1477 rebuke1486 feat1508 mewc1515 canvas1559 cope1575 mail1575 man1575 watchc1575 to imp the wings of1596 pepper1618 stone1618 brail1643 feak1686 hack1873 1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates 230 As the canuist kite, doth feare the snare. 1576 G. Pettie Petite Pallace 201 The Hauke hauing been once canuassed in the nets, wil make it daungerous to strike againe at the stale. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 93^v Some thing, I should [1581 would] not vtter, which happely y^e itching eares of young Gentlemen would so canuas, that when I wold call it in, I cannot, and so be caught with the Torteise, when I would not. 1653 E. Chisenhale Catholike Hist. 95 Unless he..made a bait to fly at a Bishoprick, and being canvassed in Peters net, it stirred up some atra bilis. †2. ? To stuff or pad out with canvas. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1606 G. Chapman Monsieur D'Oliue in Plays (1873) I. 200 Heers wit canuast out ans coate into's Jacket. 1630 J. Taylor Wks. ii. 65/1 Linnen Drapers but for transportation Could hardly Canuase out their occupation. 3. To cover, line, or furnish with canvas. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > clad or cover [verb (transitive)] > clad or cover with other materials pitcheOE lute1495 loam1600 bitume1609 wainscota1631 mud1632 putty1719 compo1809 belute1837 smear1839 puddle1844 plash1864 canvas1865 cement1886 TP1962 toilet-paper1964 1556 [see canvased adj. at Derivatives]. 1865 C. Dickens Dr. Marigold in Christmas Bks. The door had been nailed up and canvassed over. 1881 R. C. Praed Policy & Passion I. 122 The walls were only canvased. 1885 Manch. Guardian 10 Jan. 6 More cotton was still to be baled and canvassed. Derivatives ˈcanvased adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > action of hawk > [adjective] > entangled in net canvased1556 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > wallcovering > [adjective] > covered with canvas canvased1556 1556 R. Robinson tr. T. More Utopia (ed. 2) sig. Hv Glased or canuased windowes. 1559 [see sense 1]. 1875 Daily News 18 Mar. Canvassed verandahs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1260v.1556
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