单词 | dung-fork |
释义 | > as lemmasdung-fork a. An implement, chiefly agricultural, consisting of a long straight handle, furnished at the end with two or more prongs or tines, and used for carrying, digging, lifting, or throwing; also with word prefixed indicating its use, as digging-fork, dung-fork, hay- etc. fork: see those words; also fire-fork n., pitch-fork n.2, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > fork forkc1000 graip1459 prong1492 crotch1539 evil1642 yelve1688 prong fork1765 society > occupation and work > equipment > digging or lifting tools > [noun] > fork forkc1000 prong1492 lifter1570 c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 430 Ða cwelleras..wið-ufan mid heora forcum hine ðydon. c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 154 Furcilla, litel forca. a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 69 Mon in þe mone..on is bot-forke is burþen he bereþ. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Sam. xiii. 21 Eggys..of diggynge yrens, and of forkis..weren blunt. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iii. viii. 55 Suche folke..to bynde in fagottes and cast them with forkes into the fyre. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xiiiiv A good husbande hath his forkes and rakes made redy in the wynter before. 1557 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandrie sig. C.iiiv At midsommer, downe with thy brimbles and brakes: and after abrode, with thy forkes and thy rakes. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie F 892 A Forke, or trout speare with three points, fuscina. 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Cock & Fox in Fables 250 The Crew, With Forks and Staves the Fellon to pursue. 1719 G. London & H. Wise J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (ed. 7) viii. 196 We must use an Iron Fork to draw them out of the Nursery-Beds. 1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 479 Lightly, shaking it with agile hand From the full fork. 1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 16 A fork for taking up potatoes, &c., and spreading dung. < as lemmas |
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