单词 | chesil |
释义 | chesilchiseln.1 A collective term for small pebbles, such as those of the sea-beach; gravel, shingle. (In early quots. also = a siliceous stone or pebble, with plural.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > a stone > [noun] > pebble chesila700 pebbleOE pebble stoneOE gravel-stonec1450 calionc1459 pimble stone1577 rockstone1625 shilly1675 dornick1840 klip1852 jackstone1885 yonnie1941 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > stony material > [noun] > gravel or shingle chesila700 shilly1675 a700 Epinal Gloss. 461 Glarea, cisil. a750 Corpus Gloss. 975 Glarea, cisilstan. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) vii. 26 Þe getimbrode hys hus ofer sand-ceosel. 1160 Hatton G. Matt. vii. 26 Sand-chisel. c1315 Shoreham 137 For chisel, gravel [printed gravet], stones harde. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvi. xxi. 838 A litel stoon þat hatte scrupulus ‘cheselle’..is most rough and scharpe... If it falleþ bytwene a mannes foot and þe schoo it grieueth ful sore. a1400 Cov. Myst. (1841) 56 As sond in the se..Hath cheselys many unnumerabylle. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 76 Chysel, or grauel, acerua [arena P.] sabulum. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) III. 47 To trench the Chisil hard by Seton Toun, and ther to let in the Se. 1567 G. Turberville in A. Chalmers Eng. Poets (1810) II. 644 On the sandie Cheasell. a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §28 34 A port..now choaked with chisel and sands. a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §156 Seperated from the sea by a ridge of chesell. Compounds Chesil-Bank n. (also Chesil Beach) (†the Chesil) see quot. 1837. ΚΠ 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. i. ix. f. 22v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I The head or point of the Chesill lying northwest, which stretcheth vp from thence about seuen miles, as a maine narrow bank. 1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 93/1 The island has one village, Chesilton, at the commencement of the Chesil bank..Portland..has long been united to [the main land] by the Chesil Bank, one of the longest and most extraordinary ridges of pebbles in Europe. chesil spar n. a mineral. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > [noun] > white lamellar mineral spar1581 spaad1594 spar-stone1694 spat1706 sugar-spar1730 spath1763 chesil spar1835 1835 E. Pearse Let. in A. E. Bray Descr. Part Devonshire (1836) III. xxxix. 257 Specimens of chesel spar beautifully coloured. chesil-stone n. ΚΠ ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 769 Hec gloria, a schesellestone. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). chesilchissaln.2 A small, smooth green variety of Pear. ΘΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > pear > [noun] > other types of pear calewey1377 choke-pear1530 muscadel1555 lording1573 bon-chrétienc1575 Burgundian pear1578 king pear1585 amiot1600 bergamot1600 butter pear1600 dew-pear1600 greening1600 bottle pear1601 gourd-pear1601 critling1611 pearc1612 nutmeg1629 rosewater pear1629 amber pear1638 Christian1651 chesil1664 diego1664 frith-pear1664 primate1664 saffron pear1664 Windsor pear1664 nonsuch1674 muscat1675 burnt-cat1676 ambrette1686 sanguinole1693 satin1693 St. Germain pear1693 amadot1706 burree1719 Doyenne1731 beurré1736 colmar1736 chaumontel1755 Marie Louise1817 seckel1817 vergaloo1828 Passe Colmar1837 glou-morceau1859 London sugar1860 Kieffer pear1880 sand pear1880 sandy pear1884 nashi1892 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 70 in Sylva July, Fruits in Prime..green Chesil-pears. 1769 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener (ed. 3) 672/1 List of Fruits. Pears,..Green chissel [1797 chissal]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2018). † chesiln.3 Obsolete. rare. = chasuble n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > vestments > outer garments > [noun] > chasuble mass-hackleOE planetaOE chasublec1300 mass-copec1390 casule1557 chesil1570 massing cope1610 chasule1655 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1011/2 Then he toke from him the Chesille, saying: by good right we do dispoyl thee of this priestly Ornament, whiche signifieth charity. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State i. xiii. 43 Those shavelings with their stoles and chesils. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1a700n.21664n.31570 |
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