单词 | cob-iron |
释义 | cob-ironn. Obsolete exc. dialect. plural. ‘One of the irons on which a spit turns’ (Phillips); ‘the irons hung on the bars of the kitchen-range to support the spit’ (Forby). Also explained, since Ray, as = andiron n.; but cob-irons and andirons are distinct in early inventories. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > hearth or fireplace > cradle for firewood cobbard1403 gawberd1483 cob-ironsc1485 c1485 Inventory in J. T. Fowler Acts Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1875) 370 j cobiren. 1502 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 100 Spytts, rakks, cobernys, aundernnys, treuettis, tongs. 1552 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 140 I geue vnto my hostyes Cheston my cobbornes. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rotissoir, a Cobiron, or little Racke. 1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1660) 69 The clean keeping and scouring of the spits and cob-irons. a1626 F. Bacon Physiol. Remains in Baconiana (1679) 93 The Implements of the Kitching; as Spits, Ranges, Cobirons, Pots, &c. 1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 62 Cob-iron, an Andiron. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) 1871 Archaeologia 43 222 The irons which supported the spit are still called cob-irons in Lincolnshire. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1485 |
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