单词 | dornick |
释义 | dornickn.1 Applied to certain fabrics originally manufactured in Tournai, and to their imitations or substitutes. See also dannocks n., which in Forby's opinion ‘should rather be Dornecks’: †(a) a silk, worsted, woollen, or partly woollen fabric, used for hangings, carpets, vestments, etc. (obsolete); (b) ‘a species of linen cloth used in Scotland for the table’ (Johnson).In sense (b) often spelt dornock, and erroneously referred to Dornoch in Scotland. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from choice of fibres > [noun] > silk or woollen dornick1489 caddis1536 Florentine1545 rash1578 shag1592 prunella1656 brocatellea1684 crown rash1710 crépon1887 1489 Act. Dom. Conc. 131 (Jam.) xij cuschingis..and xij seruiotis of dornewick. 1514 Kingston-upon-Thames Borough Rec. in D. Lysons Environs of London (1792) I. 230 Three yerds of dornek for a pleyers cote. 1527 MS. Inv. Goods T. Cromwell (Pub. Rec. Office) ij olde qwyshyns of whyte and rede dornyx..a hangyng of dornyxe. 1550–1600 Customs Duties (BL Add. 25097) Dornickes with silke..Dornickes with caddes..Dornickes with woll..Dornickes with thred. 1552 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI c. 24 §1 The making of Hats, Dornecks and Coverlets..of late..begun..within the City of Norwich. 1553 Inv. in Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. i. 555 An olde white vestment of dornecke, with the albe. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1290/1 Over the third [loom was written] the weauing of darnix. 1625–6 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 349 For dornicks for the master's bed-chamber ixs. 1851 L. D. B. Gordon in Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal. p. viii. **/1 Pattern-weaving..the twills and all its varieties—as dimities, dornocks..&c. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. ΚΠ 1530 J. Symsoun Mem. in Liber S. Marie de Lundoris 32, in Chartuleries Balmerino & Lindores (1841) vij. seruitors of dornyth werk. 1652 Woman's Univers in Montgomerie's Poems (1887) 294 The webster with his jumbling hand, And dornick champion naperies. 1672 T. Shadwell Miser i. 9 A Darnock Carpet. 1725 London Gaz. No. 6380/13 Darnick-weaver. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021). dornickn.2 U.S. dialect. A pebble, stone, or small boulder. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > a stone > [noun] stonec888 honeeOE flintc1300 rock1677 St. Stephen's loaf1694 dornick1840 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > a stone > [noun] > pebble chesila700 pebbleOE pebble stoneOE gravel-stonec1450 calionc1459 pimble stone1577 rockstone1625 shilly1675 dornick1840 klip1852 jackstone1885 yonnie1941 1840 Daily Pennant (St. Louis) 18 June That ar man he tooks up a dornick, and made a heap of cavortins. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxxv. 385 Darnick from the Tomb of Abelard and Heloise. 1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xii. 185 He gathered a dornick, and was just drawin' back to send the strange dog where they's no fleas. 1900 G. Ade Fables in Slang 124 A big White House, with..whitewashed Dornicks in front of it. 1942 C. Morley Thorofare ii. xxxii. 147 You should have threw a dornick at me the other evening and put me in my place. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.11489n.21840 |
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