单词 | cramble |
释义 | cramblen. northern dialect. Boughs or branches of crooked and angular growth; used for rustic work or firewood. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > bough or branch > crooked branch(es) wrong1764 cramble1788 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > naturally or artificially bent wood knee-timber1612 knee1679 cramble1788 crook1802 bent-wood1862 1788 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 299 ‘Crambles’—firewood boughs, 10s. to 12s. a load. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 39 Crambles, the large knotted boughs of trees. 1858 W. White Month in Yorks. xi. 112 A crammle gate is a rustic gate with zigzaggy rails. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2020). cramblev. Obsolete exc. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > series of curves > have series of curves [verb (intransitive)] > have many or winding curves wryc1374 cramble1570 wind1666 serpentine1767 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Kivv/1 To Crambil, reptitare. 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 19 [It] hath many crooked and crambling rootes, of a wooddie substance, very like vnto the right Cyperus. 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 24 Also the roote crambleth and creepeth hither and thither. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 215 Crambling Rocket hath many large leaues cut into sundry sections. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 431 Armes or braunches..crambling or leaning toward the grounde. 2. Of persons or animals: To crawl, hobble, walk lamely, decrepitly, stiffly, or feebly.‘Still used in north. Eng. dialects down to Cheshire and Lincolnshire.’ ( N.E.D.) ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > unevenly hobble1362 clockc1400 hirple?a1500 hitch1513 himp1533 cramble1607 himple1656 hoit1786 tolter1821 hippity-hoppity1830 clop1863 hippity hop1879 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iv. 10 The gartering of the foales legges, makes it cramble with the hinder parts, and goe both crookedly and illfauouredly. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 190 Up which defatigating hill we crambled with no small difficulty. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 39 Crammel or Cramble, to walk ill, as with corns on the feet, to hobble. 1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Cramble, to hobble or creep. Crammle, to crawl on the hands and knees. 1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Crammle, to walk feebly or lamely: ‘Poor awd man, he can hardly crammle’. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Cramble, to move as though the joints were stiff. 1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Cramble, to hobble. (Macclesfield.) 3. transitive. (See quot. 1883) Cf. cram n., cramp n.1 ΚΠ 1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield Crammle, to twitch, or squeeze into a small compass. Thus a shoe is crammled down at the heel. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1788v.1570 |
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