α. 1500s gaskyn, 1500s gaskyng, 1500s– gaskin, 1600s gasking, 1600s gasskin.
β. 1500s gascoine, 1500s gayshekoon, 1500s–1600s gascoigne, 1500s–1700s gascoyne, 1600s gaskoine, 1600s–1700s gascoin, 1700s gascoign.
单词 | gaskin |
释义 | gaskinn.1α. 1500s gaskyn, 1500s gaskyng, 1500s– gaskin, 1600s gasking, 1600s gasskin. β. 1500s gascoine, 1500s gayshekoon, 1500s–1600s gascoigne, 1500s–1700s gascoyne, 1600s gaskoine, 1600s–1700s gascoin, 1700s gascoign. 1. In plural. A kind of wide loose hose or breeches; trousers. Also occasionally in singular. Cf. galligaskin n. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > breeches > wide or loose slops1481 slopper1549 gally breeches1567 gally hose1567 gaskin breeches1573 gaskins1573 galligaskin1577 galligaskin breeches1577 galligaskin1592 slivings1601 gregs1611 petticoat breeches1658 Rhinegrave1667 bushel-breeches1834 romper1922 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 6 His oun gai gallant gaskins, his kut dublets, his staring hare. 1577 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 423 j paire of gayshekoones broken iijs. ivd. 1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 18 A straite brabantie and gascoine is to be worne. 1600 T. Dekker Shomakers Holiday sig. Cv Goe thy wayes thought I, thou maist be much in my gaskins, but nothing in my neather-stockes. 1613 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle ii. sig. D2 The child's a father-lesse child, and say they should put him into a streight paire of Gaskins..he would neuer grow after it. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Gaskins, wide hose, wide breeches. An old ludicrous word. 1786 R. Cumberland Observer III. lxv. 44 A wide pair of gascoynes, which ungathered would make a couple of women's riding-kirtles. 1827 London Mag. Mar. 301 ‘Shiver my sails,’ cried he, ‘but it's a female woman in gaskins.’ 1894 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 July 4/1 So he goes..still shedding something—some rag of style or sentiment, or decent manners—as he goes; and in the end one looks to see him without his gaskins (so to speak). 1981 N.Y. Times 20 May b5 Shmyr skated straight into Potvin and knocked the Islander defenseman on the seat of his shiny blue gaskins. 2. The muscular part of the hind leg of a horse or (occasionally) dog, between the stifle and the hock. Also in extended use with reference to a person: †the thigh (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > leg > hindleg > part of thigh gaskin1652 round bone1668 1652 C. Cotterell tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Cassandra i. iii. 65 And thrust him [sc. a horse] back upon his gaskins. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 104 The Greyhound,..deep breasted, with large phillets and gaskins. 1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper iv. i. 40 One of my Daughters is big with Bastard, and she laid at her Gascoins most unmercifully! every stripe she had, I felt it. 1704 Dict. Rusticum at Rules for buying horses His hinder Thighs, or Gaskins. 1713 J. Smith tr. G. Chaucer in Poems upon Several Occasions 318 Then after he had taken lusty Pains To warm her Gaskins well, and thump'd her Loyns, Thick on her Lips he patt'ring Kisses laid. 1785 T. Stone Ess. Agric. 176 He is short-legged, deep in the four quarters, and round, deep and close in his ribs,..his loins broad and well filled up, his quarters oval, and his gaskins full. 1827 Sporting Mag. 20 159 Good hind legs and well spread gaskins are very essential points in a coach horse. 1893 M. H. Hayes Points of Horse iv. 40 The hock is extended, for the most part, by muscles which form the rear-most portion of the gaskin. 1902 E. D. Miller Mod. Polo (ed. 2) viii. 188 He looks a trifle narrow behind, but his quarters are long and strong, his gaskins muscular, and his hocks well shaped. 1945 Life 22 Oct. 36/2 It is hoped that every horse player will come to know a pastern from a gaskin. 1993 Horse & Rider May 61/2 This colt shows stronger muscling through his flank, stifle, and gaskin than either of the fillies. Compounds General attributive, as gaskin breeches, gaskin hose. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > breeches > wide or loose slops1481 slopper1549 gally breeches1567 gally hose1567 gaskin breeches1573 gaskins1573 galligaskin1577 galligaskin breeches1577 galligaskin1592 slivings1601 gregs1611 petticoat breeches1658 Rhinegrave1667 bushel-breeches1834 romper1922 1573 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Ld. Middleton (1911) 436 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 5567) XXVII. 1 iij yardes and a half of freers graye for my Mr. his cote and gaskin hose. 1586 in S. Adams Househ. Accts. R. Dudley (1995) 362 Vellet to make your lordship a pare of gaskin hose. 1604 Lismore Papers (1887) 2nd Ser. I. 105 Sattine to make yor Dublett and gaskoine hose. 1623 J. Minsheu Dict. Spanish & Eng. (at cited word) Gascoigne breeches, or Venetian hosen..greguéscos. 2007 F. McNeill Poor Women in Shakespeare iii. 137 Moll's gaskin breeches and bombast-stuffed Dutch slops in the play must have far exceeded the prescribed limit of 11/4 yards of cloth for breeches. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). gaskinn.2 = gasket n. (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > ropes for furling sails > for securing furled sail to yard gasket1620 gaskin1825 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > vegetable fibre > strip of fibre used for packing or caulking gasket1828 gaskin1860 1825 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 52/2 How sleek the sails lay on the yards, and how trim the fresh blacked gaskins looked on their bunts and quarters. 1860 R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 5) I. 328 R, cover for kier; the flanch on which this cover rests is grooved a little to admit of ‘gasking’ being inserted, so as to form a ‘joint’. 1875 G. H. Guillaume in G. Wightwick Hints Young Architects (new ed.) vii. 221 Socketted pipes..jointed with clay, tarred gaskin, or cement. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iii. xv. 120 This extraordinary patchwork was all held together by..loops of tarry gaskin. 1914 W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden 392 When a large bin is transplanted, it is guyed up with three lengths of soft cord (commonly called ‘gaskin’). 2005 R. M. Boyce & A. Masterman Plumbing: Pract. Guide for Level 2 vi. 256/2 The gaskin helps to centralize the spigot in the socket and prevents molten lead from entering into the bore of the pipe. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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