单词 | dewlap |
释义 | dewlapn. 1. a. The fold of loose skin which hangs from the throat of cattle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > (miscellaneous) parts of > dewlap freshlapa1398 dewlap1398 lap1398 crop1599 crest1607 lap-lock1648 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl. 3738) xviii. xiii In Siria beþ oxen þat haue no dewe lappis nother fresche lappes vnder þrote [L. palearia sub gutture]. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 711 The kyen..Wel hered eres, and dewlappes syde [= hanging low]. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 120 Dew lappe, syde skyn' vndur a bestys throte, peleare. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxviv To cutte the dewelappe before. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vii. f. 82 Their dangling Dewlaps with his hand he coyd vnfearfully. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. 74 His deuelap as lythe as lasse of Kent. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. I White..as the dangling deawlap of the siluer Bull. 1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis ii. 58 His broad-spred brest, long dangling dew-laps deck. 1873 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. vii. 237 Folds of skin hang freely in some animals, as..the dewlap of cattle. b. Transferred to similar parts in other animals, as the loose skin under the throat of dogs, etc., the pendulous fleshy lobe or wattle of the turkey and other fowls, and humorously to pendulous folds of flesh about the human throat. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > fold of skin > [noun] > at throat dewlap1600 bosco1654 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > jowl jowlc1320 gill1596 dewlap1600 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 50 When she drinkes, against her lips I bob, And on her withered dewlop, poure the ale. View more context for this quotation 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot ii. iii. 42 The dulapes and the jawy part of the face. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 161 Described to have a dew-lap under the throat..Senembi, Iguana. 1690 W. Walker Idiomatologia Anglo-Lat. 222 Dew~laps hang down from his chaps. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 398 The skin hangs loose..in a kind of dewlap. 1858 J. Brown Rab in Horæ Subsecivæ 1st Ser. 296 He [mastiff]..has the Shakesperian dewlaps shaking as he goes. 1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators I. 3 Gelert is down, torn and mangled from flank to dewlap. Categories » 2. ‘A brand used in marking cattle, being a cut in the lower part of the neck’ (Farmer, Americanisms, 1889). 3. dewlap-deep adj. Π 1916 A. Huxley Burning Wheel 28 Great oxen, dewlap-deep In meadows of lush grass. 1922 E. Blunden Shepherd (ed. 2) 21 Where milch cows dewlap-deep may wade. Derivatives ˈdewlapped adj. having a dewlap. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > fold of skin > [adjective] > at throat dewlappedc1420 wattle-faceda1627 wattle-jawed1630 throaty1778 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having loose skin at throat dewlappedc1420 throaty1778 c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 679 [699] Compact, a runcle necke, dewlapped syde Unto the kne. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. i. 121 My hounds are bred out of the Spartane kinde..Crooke kneed, and deawlapt, like Thessalian Buls. 1713 J. Gay Rural Sports 13 The Dewlap'd Bull now scow'rs throughout the Plains, while burning Love shoots through his raging Veins. 1720 J. Gay Rural Sports i. 79, in Poems Several Occasions I. 7 The dewlap'd bull now chafes along the plain. 1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 355 He is a fat, dew-lapped, velvet-voiced man. 1887 J. Ruskin Hortus Inclusus 11 Dew-lapped cattle..feeding on the hillside above. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1398 |
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