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▪ I. bamboo, n.|bæmˈbuː|
Forms: 6 bambus, 6–7 bambo (? -os), 7 pambou, bambou, bambouse, bambow, 7–8 bamboe, 7–9 bambu, 8– bamboo.
[Original source doubtful: now in Malay (Central Sumatra), Sundanese, and Javanese (W. and Central Java) bambu; but some consider it an introduced word there, and take the original to be Canarese bănbŭ or banwu. The native word in the Concan, in 16th c., was represented by the Portuguese as mambu, still found after 1600. Cf. Du. bamboes (= -ūs), G. bambus, Fr. bambou, It., Sp. and Pg. bambu, mod.L. bambūsa; the forms bambus, -bous, -bouse, come through Du., which seems to have been the European lang. in which the word first appeared with initial b; the final s in Du., etc. is not explained.]
1. a. A genus of giant-grasses (genus Bambusa), numerous species of which are common throughout the tropics. Also the stem of any of these used as a stick, or as material.[1563Garcia de Orta Simples e Drogues 194 Aquellas canas daquella arvore chamam os Indios, onde nasce, mambu. (The canes of that tree the Indians where it grows call mambu.)] 1598W. Phillips Linschoten's Trav. Ind. (1864) 174 A thicke Reed, as big as a mans legge, which is called Bambus. 1599Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 258 The houses are made of Canes which they call Bambos. 1662Gerbier Princ. 3 Bambouses, as they call the Poles to which they tye a Woollen Hammac to lye in. 1671Phil. Trans. VI. 3010 Very artificial boats..made of large Canes, called Bambu. 1681R. Knox Hist. Ceylon 37 The ends of the Bambou..are largely tipped with silver. 1687A. Lovell Thevenot's Trav. iii. i. xxxi. 54 The pambous that serve for palanquins. 1697W. Dampier Voy. (1729) III. i. 324 Bamboes grow here but too plentifully. 1748Anson Voy. iii. v. 341 Mast, yard, boom and outriggers, are all made of bamboo. a1826Heber Even. Walk Bengal, Beneath the bamboo's arched bough. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. ii. 281 The light, hollow, jointed stems of the Bamboo. [1884Athenæum 26 Apr. 539/1 The palms and bambusas of a sub-tropical garden.] b. Cane-coloured porcelain biscuit, invented by Wedgwood. Also bamboo ware.
1787J. Wedgwood in L. Jewitt Wedgwoods (1865) 310 Bamboo, or cane-coloured bisqué porcelain, of the same nature with the porcelain No. 3 [i.e. a fine white biscuit ware]. 1865L. Jewitt Wedgwoods 410 An open basket of bamboo. 1904W. Burton Hist. Eng. Earthenware 162 The simple patterns of lines and foliage in blue and green enamel which he [sc. Elijah Mayer] used on his bamboo wares.
2. attrib., as bamboo cane, bamboo reed; esp. when used as a material, as bamboo-basket, bamboo-book, bamboo-cane; also parasynthetic deriv., as bamboo-coloured, bamboo-walled. bamboo-coolie, one that carries loads suspended on bamboos; bamboo curtain [after iron curtain; cf. chick n.2], a political and economic ‘curtain’ or barrier between territories under the control of the Communist régime in China and non-Communist countries; also transf.; bamboo fern, a fern, Coniogramme japonica, native to Japan; bamboo-fish S. Afr., the sea-fish Sarpa salpa (family Sparidæ); also called (striped) karanteen; bamboo-grass, bamboo, or a grass that resembles it; bamboo joint, an internode of bamboo (with its nodes) cut and fashioned into a vessel for carrying water, cooking rice, etc.; bamboo palm (see quot. 1891); bamboo rat, a rodent belonging to the genus Rhizomys, found in Malacca; bamboo shoot, a young, edible shoot of the bamboo; bamboo ware (see 1 b above).
1877Tiele Hist. Relig. 36 The Bamboo-books supply many details about him.
1685Lond. Gaz. No. 2099/4 A small Bambow Cane, with a black Head. 1737G. Smith Cur. Relat. I. iii. 390 A Bamboe Cane, which was about 18 or 20 Foot long.
1800Wellington in Gurwood Disp. I. 79 Carriage for the tents [will not be required] excepting a few bamboo coolies.
1949Time 14 Mar. 55 The Communist bosses of Peiping dropped a bamboo curtain, cutting off Peiping from the world. 1955Sc. Jrnl. Theol. VIII. 422 ‘One Body in Christ’ is written by a man who stands on the Reformed side of the theological bamboo curtain. 1957Listener 6 June 903/2 We can't keep 400,000,000 people behind an economic bamboo curtain for ever.
1930L. H. & E. Z. Bailey Hortus 170/2 Coniogramme..japonica (Gymnogramma japonica). Bamboo-Fern..Japan, Formosa.
1913W. W. Thompson Sea Fisheries Cape Col. ii. 61 The pretty little bamboo-fish of the Cape is also known as stink-fish, and is the mooi nooitje of Hermanus and Struys Bay, the streepje of the Knysna and the silver karanteen of Natal. 1930Bamboo-fish [see karanteen].
1862Mayhew Crim. Prisons 62 The player on the bamboo-flute.
1909Cent. Dict. Suppl., Bamboo-grass. 1920Blackw. Mag. June 822/1 Coarse bamboo-grass began to fringe the banks.
1924M. L. Milne Home of Eastern Clan iii. 47 Water is carried in large bamboo joints. These are pierced near the top, a string is passed through the holes, and the joints are hung on one end of a pole, which rests on the shoulders.
1866Bamboo palm [see palm n.1 1 c]. 1891Kew Bulletin Jan. 3 The ‘Bamboo’ palm, or Raphia vinifera, is perhaps the commonest tree in the swamps [of Lagos].
1881R. Hunter et al. Encycl. Dict., Bamboo-rat, a rodent mammal belonging to Gray's genus Rhizomys. 1914Brit. Mus. Return 135 An Ashy Bamboo Rat (Rhizomys canescens) from the Shan States.
1796Stedman Surinam. I. ix. Another followed behind with a bamboo-rattan.
1737G. Smith Cur. Relat. I. i. 66 Twisted together with Bambo's Reeds. 1858W. Ellis Vis. Madagascar iv. 108 Low cane or bamboo-walled cottages.
1889Kipling From Sea to Sea (1899) I. xi. 303 After the bamboo-shoots came..white beans in sweet sauce. 1940A. L. Simon Conc. Encycl. Gastron. ii. 55/2, 1 small tin bamboo shoots.
▪ II. bamˈboo, v.
[f. prec. n.]
1. To beat or ‘cane’ with a bamboo. Hence bamˈbooing vbl. n.
1816‘Quiz’ Grand Master viii. 213 Or else they wou'd Get most confoundedly bamboo'd. 1818J. M'Leod Voy. Alceste ii. (1820) 42 One [Chinese] pickpocket..received a very severe bambooing. a1845Syd. Smith quoted in Non-conf. V. 266 Wellington bamboos his followers, and Peel bamboozles them.
2. trans. To furnish with bamboo or bamboo laths.
1925Blackw. Mag. Apr. 537/2 The roof was bambooed and ready to be thatched. |