单词 | clap-dish |
释义 | clap-dishn. archaic. a. A wooden dish with a lid, formerly carried by lepers, beggars from the lazar-houses, and mendicants generally, to give warning of their approach, and to receive alms. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar's dish alms disha1378 clap-dish1587 clack-dish1608 society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > signalling with other sounding instruments > [noun] > rattle used by beggars or lepers clapperc1330 clicket?a1425 clap1567 clap-dish1587 lazarus-clapper1593 clack-dish1608 lazar's clapper1611 lazar's clicket1611 lazar's snapper1658 1567 G. Turberville tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. 39 And banisht begge hir breade with dish and clap. 1567 G. Turberville tr. Ovid Poems (1587) When Cressid clapt the dish and Lazer-like did goe.] 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1303/1 The poore lazer sicke people of the Magdalen.., whose maner and vsage was then, with a clapdish vpon euerie market daie to resort and come to the markets, and there to beg. 1607 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois iii. 32 A great man..That affects royaltie, rising from a clapdish. a1640 P. Massinger Parl. of Love (1976) ii. ii. 46 A leaper with a clapdish (to giue notice Hee is infectious). a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Clap-dish, Its name survives only in a ludicrous comparison. Of a great prater it is said, that ‘his tongue moves like a beggar's clap-dish’. 1863 G. A. Sala Strange Adventures Capt. Dangerous II. vii. 226 A perfect chaos of clap-dishes..Impostors, fittous cripples, and gambling bullies. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > speech organs > types of speech organ > [noun] > mouth mouthOE clap-dish1614 clapper1938 1614 J. Cooke Tu Quoque in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) II. 274 Hold your clapdish, fasten your tongue Unto your roof. 1633 J. Ford Loves Sacrifice iii. sig. F4v Come, stop your Clap-dish. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1587 |
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