单词 | fire shovel |
释义 | fire shoveln. A shovel for placing coal on a fire and for removing coal, ashes, etc., from the fire. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > hearth or fireplace > fire-shovel fire shoveleOE slice1465 sifter1875 eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 75 Batilla, fyrscofl. c1422 Inventory Norwich in Norfolk Archaeol. (1895) 12 204 (MED) j par belwys. j ferforke. j fersouyl. j magnum screne. 1452–3 Inventory Norwich in Norfolk Archaeol. (1895) 12 222 (MED) Item j fiyrshovyll..fiyrforke..j awndyron. 1543 in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (modernized text) III. 572/1 Fireshovel 1/8. 1567 Inventory of E. Hutton in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 250 A paire of tonges, a porr & a fyer shule. 1612 Bk. Customs & Valuation in A. Halyburton Ledger (1867) 304 Fire shooles the dozen. 1662 W. Dugdale Hist. Imbanking & Drayning Fens xl. 190 He..snatcht up a fire shovel, and laying about him stoutly, kill'd one. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 227 I took a Fire Shovel and Tongs. 1780 Farmer's Mag. Sept. 287 Hold a red-hot Salamander or fire-shovel over it. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. ix. 146 The Jew, tapping the fire-shovel on the hearth. 1884 Folk-lore Jrnl. 2 25 Beating him on the back of the body with a heated fire-shovel. 1911 Gleanings Bee Culture 1 July 412/1 The fire-shovel your wife is using is old and rusty. 1960 Pop. Mech. Sept. 160/2 Need a convenient trowel for those small patching jobs..? A fire shovel makes a good substitute. 2013 Lancaster Evening Post (Nexis) 9 Feb. I picked up a fire shovel and started swinging it at him. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOE |
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