centipeden.

Brit.

/ˈsɛntᵻpiːd/, U.S.

/ˈsɛn(t)əˌpid/

Forms:

α. 1600s– centipede, 1700s centipeda, 1700s– centipes, 1800s centiped (in dictionaries), 1800s–1900s santipede.

β. 1600s centape, 1600s centapee, 1600s–1800s centipee, 1700s centapie, 1800s–1900s santipee.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin centipeda, centipēs.

Etymology: < classical Latin centipeda (also centipēs) centipede (Pliny) < centum hundred (see centum n.²) + ped- , pēs foot (see -ped comb. form). Compare French centipède (1653 or earlier; rare before late 18th cent.). In β. forms after Spanish cientopiés (early 16th cent.).Compare the following earlier occurrences of the Latin noun in an English context:a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 13 Centipeda [c1480 Pepys Centiredo], a maner of wortes [perhaps read wormes].1580 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Short Disc. Chirurg. sig. F. iiij Giue him to drinke the powder of Hogge lyce or Centum pedes.

1. Any of numerous carnivorous myriapods of the class Chilopoda characterized by an elongated body with many segments, the first segment bearing a pair of venomous claws (forcipules) and the remainder bearing a single pair of legs (in contrast to two pairs in millipedes). The number of legs can vary from under twenty to over three hundred.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun] > order Chilopoda > member of

scolopender1562

centipede1601

scolopendra1608

forty-foot1677

millipede1684

forty legs1697

thousand-feet1704

thousand-legs1807

Meg-many-feet1813

chilopodan1835

chilopod1837

twenty-foot worm-

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ix. 262 Those long earewigs of the land, which they call Centipedes [Fr. millelpiedz], or many feet.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 141 Some..with many legs, even to the number of an hundred, as Juli Scolopendræ, or such as are termed centipedes .

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xi. 320 Centapees, call'd by the English 40 Legs... Their sting or bite is more raging than the Scorpion.

1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xxxix. 89 [He] was bit in the Calf of the Leg by a Centipee.

1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. iii. 426 The Centapie..is reckoned very venomous.

1794 E. Darwin Zoonomia I. xvi. 182 I once saw a worm..and observed a centipes hanging at its tail.

1799 G. Hamilton in Asiatic Researches (London ed.) 2 339 Stung by a scorpion, or centipee.

1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xvi. 67 A specimen of the giant centipede..more than a foot long.

1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. §823 The Centipede and other carnivorous Myriapods, possessing strong and active limbs, varying in number from fifteen to twenty-one pairs.

1875 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. III. 539 In the case of Centipede bites.

1929 G. Seldes You can't print That! iii. viii. 219 Khaki-clad soldiers move in line like centipedes, their coats long to the ground.

1978 G. B. Williams Pest Extermination Handbk. vi. 69 The large, reddish centipedes found in the western states can deliver a very painful bite.

2012 Wall St. Jrnl. 28 Apr. a11/2 Not so long ago, museum bug hunters discovered a new genus of centipedes—perhaps the world's smallest—under the fallen leaves in Central Park.

2. figurative and in extended use. Something regarded as resembling a centipede, esp. in having many legs.

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1847 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 11 Sept. 3/3 The great centipede of poverty was creeping on the faster.

a1862 H. D. Thoreau Yankee in Canada (1866) i. 16 They made on me the impression, not of many individuals, but of one vast centipede of a man.

1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling vii. 228 The line will make ‘centipedes’ on the water.

1905 Out West Sept. 265 The prairie-schooner no longer ploughs through the street, drawn by a centipede of mules.

1953 Pop. Mech. Dec. 230/1 That's why a centipede of towers must crawl..across 50 miles of mile-high ragged peaks..carrying 300,000 volts of electricity on its back.

2005 N.Y. Times 6 Dec. e5 All of them forming a human centipede inching along on their backs.

3. Nautical.

a. Originally more fully centipede gasket. A piece of rope having shorter lengths of rope woven into it at intervals as crosspieces; esp. such a rope running the length of a boom or yard, the crosspieces being used to bind down a sail in stowing it. Also (occasionally): a strip of wood fitted with rope crosspieces to serve the same purpose. Now rare.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > tackle or purchase > [noun] > group of small cords through block

yuffrouw1494

crowfoot1627

crow's foot1627

crowfoot dead-eye1769

euphroe1815

centipede1857

1857 J. M. Boyd Man. Naval Cadets xvii. 298 The Studding sails..are tied up with ‘centipede’ gaskets.

1883 E. H. Taunt Young Sailor's Assistant Pract. Seamanship xiii. 299 Roll the sail up snugly and stop it with rope yarns, or better still, have a centipede on the yard.

1897 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 7) 134 Sails to be furled, secured with a centipede and kept covered.

1901 C. T. Brady Under Tops'ls & Tents v. 70 I called out when the gaskets had been cast off the centipede, that all was ready with the flying-jib.

1939 F. J. Buenzle Bluejacket x. 157 ‘Euphroe’ or ‘Uvro,’..is the name of a piece of wood aboard ship that is drilled full of holes and used to spread the legs of a centipede on the backs of awnings.

1948 R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 128/2 Centipede, a strong rope or strip of oak running the length of the bowsprit and jibboom on each side, with short stops of sennit at intervals, used in stowing jibs.

†b. A device consisting of a teardrop-shaped block of wood having holes at the larger end through which ropes are passed for suspending an awning. Cf. euphroe n. Obsolete. rare.

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1877 C. Burney Boy's Man. Seamanship & Gunnery (ed. 5) 222 A Centipede, or, as it is sometimes called, a Euphroe, is a long piece of wood rounded, the largest part near the middle, the upper end sloping gradually off to a point... A number of horizontal holes are pierced through it... It is used as a crowfoot, fitted with a number of legs, for ridge ropes of awnings.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	centipede
释义	centipeden. Brit. /ˈsɛntᵻpiːd/, U.S. /ˈsɛn(t)əˌpid/ Forms: α. 1600s– centipede, 1700s centipeda, 1700s– centipes, 1800s centiped (in dictionaries), 1800s–1900s santipede. β. 1600s centape, 1600s centapee, 1600s–1800s centipee, 1700s centapie, 1800s–1900s santipee. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin centipeda, centipēs. Etymology: < classical Latin centipeda (also centipēs) centipede (Pliny) < centum hundred (see centum n.²) + ped- , pēs foot (see -ped comb. form). Compare French centipède (1653 or earlier; rare before late 18th cent.). In β. forms after Spanish cientopiés (early 16th cent.).Compare the following earlier occurrences of the Latin noun in an English context:a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 13 Centipeda [c1480 Pepys Centiredo], a maner of wortes [perhaps read wormes].1580 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Short Disc. Chirurg. sig. F. iiij Giue him to drinke the powder of Hogge lyce or Centum pedes. 1. Any of numerous carnivorous myriapods of the class Chilopoda characterized by an elongated body with many segments, the first segment bearing a pair of venomous claws (forcipules) and the remainder bearing a single pair of legs (in contrast to two pairs in millipedes). The number of legs can vary from under twenty to over three hundred. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun] > order Chilopoda > member of scolopender1562 centipede1601 scolopendra1608 forty-foot1677 millipede1684 forty legs1697 thousand-feet1704 thousand-legs1807 Meg-many-feet1813 chilopodan1835 chilopod1837 twenty-foot worm- 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ix. 262 Those long earewigs of the land, which they call Centipedes [Fr. millelpiedz], or many feet. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 141 Some..with many legs, even to the number of an hundred, as Juli Scolopendræ, or such as are termed centipedes . View more context for this quotation 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xi. 320 Centapees, call'd by the English 40 Legs... Their sting or bite is more raging than the Scorpion. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xxxix. 89 [He] was bit in the Calf of the Leg by a Centipee. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. iii. 426 The Centapie..is reckoned very venomous. 1794 E. Darwin Zoonomia I. xvi. 182 I once saw a worm..and observed a centipes hanging at its tail. 1799 G. Hamilton in Asiatic Researches (London ed.) 2 339 Stung by a scorpion, or centipee. 1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xvi. 67 A specimen of the giant centipede..more than a foot long. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. §823 The Centipede and other carnivorous Myriapods, possessing strong and active limbs, varying in number from fifteen to twenty-one pairs. 1875 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. III. 539 In the case of Centipede bites. 1929 G. Seldes You can't print That! iii. viii. 219 Khaki-clad soldiers move in line like centipedes, their coats long to the ground. 1978 G. B. Williams Pest Extermination Handbk. vi. 69 The large, reddish centipedes found in the western states can deliver a very painful bite. 2012 Wall St. Jrnl. 28 Apr. a11/2 Not so long ago, museum bug hunters discovered a new genus of centipedes—perhaps the world's smallest—under the fallen leaves in Central Park. 2. figurative and in extended use. Something regarded as resembling a centipede, esp. in having many legs. ΚΠ 1847 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 11 Sept. 3/3 The great centipede of poverty was creeping on the faster. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Yankee in Canada (1866) i. 16 They made on me the impression, not of many individuals, but of one vast centipede of a man. 1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling vii. 228 The line will make ‘centipedes’ on the water. 1905 Out West Sept. 265 The prairie-schooner no longer ploughs through the street, drawn by a centipede of mules. 1953 Pop. Mech. Dec. 230/1 That's why a centipede of towers must crawl..across 50 miles of mile-high ragged peaks..carrying 300,000 volts of electricity on its back. 2005 N.Y. Times 6 Dec. e5 All of them forming a human centipede inching along on their backs. 3. Nautical. a. Originally more fully centipede gasket. A piece of rope having shorter lengths of rope woven into it at intervals as crosspieces; esp. such a rope running the length of a boom or yard, the crosspieces being used to bind down a sail in stowing it. Also (occasionally): a strip of wood fitted with rope crosspieces to serve the same purpose. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > tackle or purchase > [noun] > group of small cords through block yuffrouw1494 crowfoot1627 crow's foot1627 crowfoot dead-eye1769 euphroe1815 centipede1857 1857 J. M. Boyd Man. Naval Cadets xvii. 298 The Studding sails..are tied up with ‘centipede’ gaskets. 1883 E. H. Taunt Young Sailor's Assistant Pract. Seamanship xiii. 299 Roll the sail up snugly and stop it with rope yarns, or better still, have a centipede on the yard. 1897 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 7) 134 Sails to be furled, secured with a centipede and kept covered. 1901 C. T. Brady Under Tops'ls & Tents v. 70 I called out when the gaskets had been cast off the centipede, that all was ready with the flying-jib. 1939 F. J. Buenzle Bluejacket x. 157 ‘Euphroe’ or ‘Uvro,’..is the name of a piece of wood aboard ship that is drilled full of holes and used to spread the legs of a centipede on the backs of awnings. 1948 R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 128/2 Centipede, a strong rope or strip of oak running the length of the bowsprit and jibboom on each side, with short stops of sennit at intervals, used in stowing jibs. †b. A device consisting of a teardrop-shaped block of wood having holes at the larger end through which ropes are passed for suspending an awning. Cf. euphroe n. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1877 C. Burney Boy's Man. Seamanship & Gunnery (ed. 5) 222 A Centipede, or, as it is sometimes called, a Euphroe, is a long piece of wood rounded, the largest part near the middle, the upper end sloping gradually off to a point... A number of horizontal holes are pierced through it... It is used as a crowfoot, fitted with a number of legs, for ridge ropes of awnings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1601
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