单词 | gavelock |
释义 | gavelockn. Obsolete exc. Historical and dialect. 1. A spear for throwing; a dart, javelin. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > specific for throwing gavelockc1000 wifleOE dartc1330 gavelot14.. pilec1400 hurlbatc1450 javelot1489 espiot1490 javelin1513 archegay1523 framea1545 zagaie1590 bourdonasse1596 assegai1600 c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 143/6 Hastilia, gafelucas. c1050 in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses I. 4238 Catapultas, gauelucas. 1183 Jocelin de Brakelonda (Camden) 35 Baculum meum excussi ad modum teli quod vocatur gaveloc. a1259 Matth. Paris anno 1256 (Rolls) V. 550 Frisones igitur..ipsum Willelmum cum jaculis, quae vulgariter gavelocos appellant, quorum maxime noticiam habent et usum..hostiliter insequebantur. a1300 E.E. Psalter (Horstm.) liv. 22 [lv. 21] Nesched als oyle his saghs bene, And þai ere gauelokes [L. jacula] þam bitwene. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 297 Þe Waleis partie had vmbilaid þe brigge. With gauelokes and dartes suilk ore was non sene. c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) l. 1426 Thai hurte him foule and slough his hors With gauylokes and wyth dartis. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xviii. 300 I saugh hem launche at hym knyves and gavelokkes and dartes. a1650 Merlin 2138 in Furniv. Percy Folio I. 489 [He] bare a gauelocke in his hand. 1817 J. F. Pennie Royal Minstrel v. 390 Two hundred spearmen, bearing each His gav'loc crown'd with a stern warrior's head. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > fighting between animals > [noun] > cock-fighting > spur gablocksa1672 gaff1688 spur1688 gavelock1698 gafflet1714 gaffle1755 sickle- 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 175 Cocks as big as Turkies: which they Arm with Razors tied flat under the Claws, and faulched Two Inches, instead of Gavelocks. 3. An iron crowbar or lever. (Cf. gablock n. 2.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lever or crowbar > [noun] lever1297 speke1366 crowa1400 gavelock1497 prisea1500 handspoke1513 porter1538 sway1545 handspike1559 heaver1598 coleweigh1600 handspeek1644 forcer1649 ringer1650 ripping-chisel1659 pinch1685 crow-spike1692 Betty1700 wringer1703 crowbar1748 spike1771 pry1803 jemmy1811 crow-iron1817 dog1825 pinchbar1837 jimmy1848 stick1848 pry bar1872 peiser1873 nail bar1929 cane1930 1497 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 349 Item, giffin for xiij stane of irne, to mak grath to Mons new cradill, and gavilokkis to ga with hir. 1558 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1861) III. 80 viij. mylne pycke ij axes one gavelocke of iron. c1632 Inventory Goods All-Saints Church Newcastle in J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle (1789) I. 370 One iron gavelock, and one swea tree with two rolles for taking and laying down lairstones. 1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel i. 6 Thou sawest moreover a Stone cut out without hands, no man with Axe or Gavelock dissevering it. 1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 107 Nin like thee cud fling the geavelick. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 758 The greater part of the matters contained in the [lead] furnace is drawn over on the work-stone, by means of a large rake called a gowelock. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 69 Geavelock, a large iron crowbar for raising stone. 1880 Antiquary Apr. 187 On trying the ground on the north side of the fence with a gavelock, they came on the cover of a cist. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.c1000 |
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