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Sheffield|ˈʃɛfiːld|
1. a. The name of a manufacturing city of Yorkshire, famous for cutlery, used attrib. as Sheffield knife, Sheffield ware, Sheffield whittle; Sheffield plate, plate made of copper coated with silver by a special process brought to perfection in Sheffield (but now disused).
c1386Chaucer Reeve's T. 13 A Sheffield [v. rr. scheffeld, sheffeld] thwitel baar he in his hose. 1575Laneham Let. (1871) 38 A payr of capped Sheffeld kniuez. 1623Dekker Witch of Edmonton ii. ii, The Bridegroom and Bride comes; the new pair of Sheffeild-Knives fitted both to one sheath. 1745Life Bampfylde-Moore Carew 52 Buttons, Knives, Scissars, and other Sheffield Ware. 1821Scott Kenilw. xxvii, But thou art sharper than a Sheffield whittle! 1856Gore in Orr's Circ. Sci., Pract. Chem. 92 Old worn-out articles formed of ‘Sheffield plate’. 1878Dowden Stud. Lit. 37 If a song is to be at all a sword, it must be of finer temper than even the finest Sheffield cutlery.
†b. Used predicatively as adj. Obs.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe Wks. 1910 III. 178 Tell me if our English sconses be not right Sheffield or no.
2. The name of Henry North Holroyd, third Earl of Sheffield (1832–1909), used attrib. in Sheffield Shield, a trophy presented by him in 1892 and contested annually by Australian state cricket teams (freq. attrib.).
1901Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack (ed. 38) 462 The result determined the possession of the Sheffield Shield for the season. 1912Dict. National Biogr. 2nd Suppl. II. 290/2 In 1891–2 Lord Sheffield, at his sole expense, took to Australia a team..under the management of Alfred Shaw. This enterprise greatly stimulated Australian cricket; the earl presented the Sheffield Shield, a trophy to be competed for annually by cricketers of Victoria, New South Wales, and South Australia. 1930C. G. Macartney My Cricketing Days iii. 20 My first season with the new club turned out to be my first in inter-state and Sheffield Shield cricket. 1977World of Cricket Monthly June 19/1 The Australian cricketers we have signed are available to play Test, Sheffield Shield and club cricket when they are not playing in the super Test and other series. |