单词 | draff |
释义 | draffn. a. Refuse, dregs, lees; wash or swill given to swine; hog's-wash; spec. the refuse or grains of malt after brewing or distilling; brewer's grains. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > malting > [noun] > malt > refuse malt draffc1275 malt-culms?c1450 malt-dustc1450 ale grounds1577 grain1583 ale grains1630 culmings1688 malt-culmingsa1728 malt tails1743 tail-dust1764 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14600 He gon ȝeoten draf and chaf and aten. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3582 Moyses..dede ðat calf melten in fir,..And mengde in water..And gaf ðat folc drinken ðat drof. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. xi. 11 Hogges..draf weore hem leuere Þen al þe presciouse Peerles. c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 171 Þei diversen fro Goddis lawe, as draf diversiþ fro clene drynke. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 580 If their appetite With draf of win be fed. c1522 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 73 A sow contente with draffe durt and mire. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 574 Till vermin or the draff of servil food Consume me. View more context for this quotation 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 181/2 Washings..necessary for keeping of Swine..Whey Butter-milk, Dish-water, any kind of Draff. 1875 A. Smith New Hist. Aberdeenshire I. 559 Animals..fed off by the dregs or draff at the Distillery. b. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 312 To wryte The draf of stories, and forgo the corn. a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 296 The draffs of filthy errors. 1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) To Parl. sig. A2v The brood of Belial, the draffe of men. 1878 E. Dowden Stud. Lit. 45 Examples that have survived the chaff and draff of the time. c. Proverbs. ΚΠ 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. x. sig. Civ The styll sow eats vp all the draffe. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Diiv Draff is your errand, but drynke ye wolde. a1598 D. Fergusson Sc. Prov. (1641) sig. A4 As the sow fils, the draffe soures. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iv. ii. 97 Still Swine eats all the draugh. Compounds draff-drink, draff-midden, draff-pock, draff-trough, draff-tub; draff-cheap adj. Also draffsack n. ΚΠ 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ii. l. 257 Thai kest him our..In a draff myddyn. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Cock & Jasp l. 147 in Poems (1981) 9 Ane sow to quhome men..In hir draf troich wald saw the precious stanis. 1568 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 282 One draffe tub iiijd. 1637 S. Rutherford Let. in Joshua Redivivus (1664) 113 The best regenerat have their defilements & [if I may speak so] their draff-poke that will clog behinde them all their dayes. 1807 R. Tannahill Soldier's Return 103 (Jam.) Thanks is but a draff-cheap phrase. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1275 |
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