| 释义 |
ˈshakefork
Also shackfork.
[f. shake v.]
A wooden fork with two tines or prongs used by threshers to shake and remove the straw from the grain; also, a pitchfork. Now dial.
1338Durh. Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 200 It. 8 rastra cum schakforkes, pr. 12d. 1483Cath. Angl. 332/2 A Schake forke, pastinatum. 1597Bp. Hall Sat. iii. vii. 66 So slender wast with such an Abbots loyne,..Like a broad shak-forke with a slender steale. 1607Markham Cavel. v. 15 You shall take a shakeforke..and with it you shall shake vp..all the horses dung, and wet litter. 1788W. H. Marshall Yorksh. II. 350 Shack-fork (that is, shake-fork); a wooden fork,..generally made of a forked ozier; the tines or branches about two feet long, and one foot wide at the points. 1847Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. VIII. ii. 297 The swaths are gathered into shocks with a shack-fork. 1876Whitby Gloss., Shackfork, a wooden fork for lifting the thrashed straw... ‘His clothes look as if they were flung on to his back with a shackfork.’
b. Sc. Her. (See quots.)
1680G. Mackenzie Sci. Her. xi. 33 This is called a Shak-fork with us, and should not touch the corners of the Escutcheon. 1780J. Edmondson Her. II. Gloss., Shake⁓fork, is in form like the Pall, but doth not touch the top of the shield, and is pointed at each end. 1894J. Macintosh Ayrsh. Nights' Entert. xv. 286 [Stewarton Ch.] Over the..doorway..is a rather long window-like compartment, in which the shake-fork forms, as it were, the mullion. |