| 释义 |
shockle Sc. and north. Now rare.|ˈʃɒk(ə)l|
Forms: 6 schokle, (7 sheckle), 9 schochle, shoggle.
[Shortened from ice-shockle, icicle.]
A lump of ice; an icicle.
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 46 First in thay ryde into this riuer..to thow the pypes and schokles of yce, frosin vpon thame. 1639Sir R. Gordon Hist. Earld. Sutherl. (1813) 208 The ground wes ful of ronns, or sheckles of yce. a1859Watt in Mod. Scott. Poets Ser. ii. 54 The shochles, like crystal, hing clear frae the rocks. 1871Waddell Ps. lxxviii. 47 He dang doun their plane trees wi shoggles o' ice. |