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▪ I. Harvey, n.|ˈhɑːvɪ|
1. [Reputed to be named after Gabriel Harvey, d. 1630.] A kind of cooking- and cider-apple; different varieties are named golden Harvey, Siberian Harvey, etc.
1640Parkinson Theat. Bot. in R. Hogg Fruit Man. (1875) 67 Harvey apple, a faire, greate, goodly apple; and very well relished. 1741Compl. Fam. Piece i. v. 262 Your Apples must be Pippins, Pearmains, or Harveys. Ibid. ii. iii. 352 Harvey Apple, Aromatick Pippin. 1834Penny Cycl. II. 189/2 The best varieties [for cider] are..the Siberian Harvey..and above all, the golden Harvey, or brandy apple.
2. The name of Peter Harvey (see quot. 1959), English publican, in Harvey's Sauce (now a proprietary trade-mark). Also Harvey Sauce and ellipt.
1817[see ketchup]. 1856Dickens in Househ. Words XIII. 555/2 The grocer's hot pickles, Harvey's Sauce, Doctor Kitchener's Zest. 1870― E. Drood xi. 80 A condiment of a profounder flavor than Harvey. 1876Trade Marks Jrnl. 28 June 198 Harvey's Sauce for Fish, Game, Steaks etc. Prepared from the Original Receipt, only at E. Lazenby's Fish Sauce Warehouse. Ibid. 199 Harvey's Sauce—Caution: The admirers of this celebrated Sauce are..requested to observe that each bottle bears the well-known Label signed ‘Elizabeth Lazenby’. 1905E. Wharton House of Mirth i. xiv. 243 A bottle of Harvey sauce on the sideboard. 1959Tradition (E. Lazenby & Co.) Jan. 2/1 The history of Elizabeth Lazenby can really be dated from 1760. In that year, a Mr. Peter Harvey, owner of an inn called the ‘Black Dog’ in Bedfont, Middlesex, invented a thin sauce known as ‘Harvey's Sauce’. So good was it that many of his customers endeavoured to obtain the recipe, and one of them, a certain London grocer named M. Lazenby, offered to buy it, but Peter Harvey refused to part with his secret. Mr. Lazenby..married Harvey's sister, Elizabeth. As a wedding present, Peter Harvey gave Elizabeth..the recipe for his famous sauce. 1967A. Davis Package & Print 44 It is likely that by the end of the eighteenth century Burgess's essence of anchovies..and Lazenby's Harvey's sauce were on the market in labelled bottles not noticeably different from those in which they were to enter the twentieth.
▪ II. ˈHarvey, v.
[After the surname of the inventor.]
a. To harden (steel) by a process invented by H. A. Harvey of New Jersey, (patented in England 1888, No. 401); = Harveyize.
b. To fit or supply (a ship) with armour-plates so treated. Hence ˈHarveyed ppl. a.
1894Daily News 21 June 2/6 The Harveyed Steel Plate has now been adopted. 1894Times 12 July 8/4 The ‘Harveyed’ plates in the tests did not show any marked superiority over the St. Chamond plate. 1894Westm. Gaz. 18 Oct. 6/1 The royalties on plates ordered to be ‘Harveyed’, though not yet completed. 1896Daily News 21 Aug. 5/8 The vessel..is Harveyed to the water line.
Also ˈHarveyize v., -ized ppl. a.
1891Pall Mall G. 2 Nov. 6/3 The trial of two nickel steel plates Harveyised. 1892Ibid. 2 Nov. 6/3 A patent known as high-carbon nickel Harveyized armour for the protection of men-of-war. 1894Times 6 June 7/4 ‘Harveyized’ steel plates will stop the heaviest cannon shot. |