| 释义 |
▪ I. † cank, a. dial. or slang. Obs.
Dumb.
1673R. Head Canting Acad. 36 Cank, dumb. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. iii. §68 Canke, a Dumb Man. 1731–1800Bailey, Cank, dumb. C[ountry Word].
▪ II. cank, v. dial.|kæŋk|
[Imitative of the sound.]
intr. To cackle as geese; to talk rapidly, to chatter. Hence cank n.2, ˈcanking vbl. n.
1741Shenstone Let. 23 Sept. Wks. 1777 III. 36 The canking of a goose. 1773Graves Spir. Quix. iv. iii. (D.) The canking of some Spanish geese..threw poor Jerry into the utmost consternation. 1869B. Brierley Red Wind. Hall xiv. in Lanc. Gloss. s.v., Aw'll just have a bit of a cank wi' thee. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Cank, to cackle as geese; to talk rapidly, to gabble.
▪ III. cank, n.1 local.|kæŋk|
The name in the Midland coalfields for a hard ferruginous sandstone. Also cankstone.
a1835J. Phillips Geol. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VI. 587/2 Some less regular sandstone beds, called ‘Cankstone’, approach very nearly to the nature of the ganister or calliard rocks of the coal strata. 1860Engl. & For. Mining Gloss. (ed. 2) 34 Cank, whinstone. 1877[see galliard n.2]. 1964Gloss. Mining Terms (B.S.I.) v. 6 Cank, a hard, dark-grey massive rock consisting largely of ankerite. |