单词 | drail |
释义 | drailn. 1. A fish-hook and line weighted with lead to enable it to be dragged at a depth in the water; also, the weighted hook, and the weight, which is a conical piece of lead placed round the shank of the hook. (U.S.) ΚΠ 1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. ix. 35 These Macrills are taken with drailes which is a long small line, with a lead and hooke at the end of it. 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 195 Jigs and drails for the capture of cod, weakfish, Spanish mackerel, bass, bluefish, and dolphin. 1894 Youth's Compan. 22 Nov. 562/4 To whirl the lines..armed with weighted hooks called ‘drails’. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > other dorlot1340 horn1340 vitremytec1386 templesc1430 bycocket1464 burlet1490 knapscall1498 shapion1504 shaffron1511 paste1527 attire1530 faille1530 muzzle1542 corneta1547 abacot1548 wase1548 wrapper1548 tiring1552 basket1555 bilimenta1556 Paris head1561 shadow1578 head-roll1583 mitre1585 whitehead1588 crispa1592 ship-tire1602 oreillet1603 scoffion1604 coif1617 aigrette1631 egreta1645 drail1647 topknotc1686 slop1688 Burgundy1701 bandore1708 fly-cap1753 capriole1756 lappet-head1761 fly1773 turban1776 pouf1788 knapscapa1802 chip1804 toque1817 bonnet1837 casquette1840 war bonnet1845 taj1851 pugree1859 kennel1896 roach1910 Deely bobber1982 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 25 It is no marvell they weare drailes on the hinder part of their heads. 3. Part of a plough: see quot. local. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > part to which draught attached plough shackle?c1475 plough-ear1510 cock?1523 ear?1523 muzzle1534 cutwith1565 tractory1607 plough-cock1652 plough-head1733 hake1787 bridle1790 drail1811 gallows1840 plough clevis1846 1811 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. (new ed.) 263 Drail, the iron bow of a plough from which the traces draw, and which has teeth to set the furrow wider or narrower. 1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 161 The drail, by which they are now commonly attached, being at a. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2020). † drailv.1 Obsolete. 1. transitive. To drag or trail along. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull > along a surface or behind drawOE harry1340 traila1380 traina1500 lag1530 strakec1530 entrain1568 drail1598 lurry1664 toboggan1886 schlep1911 1598 T. Bastard Chrestoleros ii. x. 33 First would I sterue myselfe..Or these rude chufs should drayle me through their tayles. a1644 B. Twyne Musterings Univ. Oxf. in T. Hearne Chronicon Prioratus de Dunstaple (1733) II. 765 The pike men drayled their pikes on the ground. 1664 H. More Antidote Idolatry To Rdr. He returned..drailing his sheephook behinde him. 2. intransitive. To trail, draggle, move laggingly. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > follow behind [verb (intransitive)] > follow slowly draga1513 draggle1577 drail1598 lag1651 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Descr. Germanie i, in Annales 259 Neither going too hastily before the horsemen, nor drailing after. a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1737) VI. xii. 449 Unless we have also a continual care to keep it from drailing in the dirt. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021). drailv.2 U.S. intransitive. To fish with a drail. ΚΠ 1636 A. Shurt Let. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1863) 4th Ser. VI. 570 Richard Foxwill..spake with a boate of ours (draylinge for mackrell). 1873 Rep. U.S. Bureau Fisheries i. xiv. 248 The usual method of taking them [sc. bluefish] with the line is by drailing or trolling. 1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 180 It is not known when the custom of drailing for mackerel was first introduced. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < |
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