释义 |
stocking-apple In 7 stocken-, -in, stoken-. [? f. stocking vbl. n. in the sense ‘keeping in stock’.] A kind of cider-apple. local.
1629Parkinson Parad. (1904) 588 The Stoken apple is a reasonable good apple. 1656Beale Heref. Orchards (1657) 45 The apples we commend for grafts, are the Stockin-apple [etc.]. 1676Worlidge Cyder 163 The Stocken or Stoken-Apple is likewise in esteem there [in the cider countries], although not known by that name in many places. 1764Museum Rust. II. x. 37 These [cider apples in Herefordshire] go under various names, as..the stocking-apple,..&c. |