单词 | chawn |
释义 | † chawnn. Obsolete or dialect. A gap, cleft, chink, rift, fissure; a chine. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > chap or crack rhagadesOE chap1398 chine1398 rupture?a1425 chapping1540 rift1543 chame1559 cleft1576 chop1578 crepature1582 cone1584 chink1597 fent1597 chawn1601 star1607 hacka1610 kin1740 sand-crack1895 the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > chink, crevice, or cleft chinec888 cleftc1374 crevice1382 crannyc1440 crack1530 crannel1534 chink1552 crank1552 gash1575 chaum1601 chawn1601 fissure1609 case1778 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 37 In one place the walls of cities are laid along: in another they be swallowed vp in a deepe and wide chawne. 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge ii. ii. sig. Dv Defyance to thy power, thou rifted Iawne. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xvii. vii. 89 The earth waxing drie..openeth very great chinkes and wide chawnes. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fendasse, a cleft, rift, chop, choane. a1640 T. Jackson Treat. Christian Obed. iii, in Wks. (1673) I. 928 An Earthquake..made a chaun or rift in the Roof of the Temple. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 82/1 An Adams Apple [hath] some rifts, chaps, or chones thereon. 1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais iv. lii I was..plagu'd with Chaps, Chawns and Piles at the Fundament. 1799 F. Leighton MS. Lett. to J. Boucher 26 Feb. Shropshire word chone, meaning a chap, gap, or cut in the flesh of the fingers, from excessive cold. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † chawnv. Obsolete. 1. intransitive. To gape open. ΘΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > become open [verb (intransitive)] > be or become wide open yawnc890 gapec1480 galp1546 yaw1596 chawn1598 yawn1600 chaum1610 dehisce1657 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. iii. sig. C8 To stop his iawning chaps. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 435 That the threshing floors should be wrought and tempered with oile lees, that they might not chawn & gape. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 512 Arches..now chinking and chawning for age. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. viii. 19 Salt, bitter, chauning, burnt, parched..grounds. 2. transitive. To cleave or rive asunder; to cause to gape open. ΘΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > crack, split, or fissure to-slita1250 rivea1400 slatterc1400 chapc1460 chip1508 gaig1584 spleet1585 split1595 chink1599 chawn1602 slent1605 slat1607 sliver1608 speld1616 crevice1624 checka1642 chicka1642 crack1664 splice1664 sleave- 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iii. sig. Ev O thou all bearing earth..O chaune thy brest, And let me sinke into thee. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Crevasser, to chop, chawne, chap, chinke, riue or cleaue asunder. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fendiller, to..chap, choane, open. 3. transitive. = chine v.2 ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > prepare seafood [verb (transitive)] > cut up or carve chine1508 chawn1693 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxviii. 235 Chawned cod. Derivatives chawned adj. Π 1693 [see sense 3]. chawning adj. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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