| 释义 |
† ˈgrooping, vbl. n. Obs.
[f. groop v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb groop; grooving, gouging. Chiefly in Comb. grooping-iron, a kind of chisel or gouge; grooping tool, a cooper's tool for making ‘groops’.
c1440Promp. Parv. 217/1 Grow(p)ynge or gravynge yryn, runcina, scrophina. 1453Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 162 Et de 6d. solutis Ricardo Carvour et servienti suo pro gropyng mensal dicti Purpityll. 1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 807/29 Hec strofina, a gropyng-yryn. 1483Cath. Angl. 167/2 A Grupynge yren, runcina. a1500Debate Carpenter's Tools 31 in Hazl. E.P.P. I. 80 The groping-iren than spake he: Compas, who hath greuyd the? 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 108/1 Grooping is the making of the Rigget at the two ends of the Barrel to hold the head in. Ibid. 318/1 This may be termed the Coopers Grooping Tool. |