单词 | colander |
释义 | colandern. 1. A vessel, usually of metal, closely perforated at the bottom with small holes, and used as a sieve or strainer in cookery. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > colander colander14.. chinois1937 α. β. 1559 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 181 One cullyandre 1s.1589 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Georgiks ii. 26 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks The cullinders or strayners of the presses [Georg. ii. 242 cola prelorum].1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1660) 80 Put them [oysters] into a Cullander, and let all the moysture run from them.1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper i. 10 Strain it through a Cullendar.1796 Glasse's Art of Cookery (new ed.) vi. 93 Take some crumbs of bread, rubbed through a fine cullender.1853 A. Soyer Pantropheon 261 Gridirons, cullenders, dripping-pans.14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 574 Colatorium, a Colyndore. c1450 Cookery Bks. 113 Bray hit..drawe it thorw a colonur. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 207/1 Colendre to strayne with, covleresse. 1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis xii. 248 Like curds through wickar squeasd; or iuces crusht Through draining colendars. 1672 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) II. 81 In the late war, his own ship was pierced like a colander. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 81 First an Osier Colendar provide Of Twigs thick wrought. View more context for this quotation 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues III. 87 They carry water to a vessel which is full of holes in a similarly holey colander. 2. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 271 Many men do let their fortunes run (as it were through a colander or strainer, wherein the worst stick and remaine in the way behind, whiles the better do passe and run out. 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. xi. 201 After it hath been strained through those curious Colanders, the Lacteal Veins. 1839 T. Hook Gurney Married 193 Do you suppose such a story could be shaken in a family colander without running through? 3. A similar vessel used in the casting of shot. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > [noun] > manufacture of firearms and ammunition > instruments > for making bullets or shot bullet-bore1678 bullet-mould1678 well1835 colander1875 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 79 The cullenders are hollow hemispheres of sheet-iron, about 10 inches in diameter, perforated with holes, which should be perfectly round and free from burs. 1879 G. Gladstone in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 50/1 The perforated frames, or cullenders, through which the molten metal has to pass. Compounds In combinations. ΚΠ 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Colander-shovel, one of wire open-work, for shoveling salt crystals out of the evaporating-pan. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). colanderv. 1. transitive. To pass through a colander, to strain. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > straining > strain [verb (transitive)] syec725 strainc1386 sile14.. sythe1440 farcea1475 colate1631 elutriate1731 colander1887 tammy1903 1887 F. Caddy Thro' Fields with Linnaeus I. 128 Why was there no Boswell at his elbow to colander his best for us? 2. To perforate with a number of holes, to riddle. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into > make many holes in riddle1511 mesh1667 colander1715 honeycomb1735 to make a riddle of1749 sieve1839 mole1856 1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost I. iv. ii. 148 They wore Linen Stockings, cullender'd, as it were, with Holes at bottom. 1862 Life Sir R. Wilson I. ii. 77 Three dropped quite colandered with balls. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.14..v.1715 |
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