单词 | glasshouse |
释义 | glasshousen. 1. The building or works where glass is made. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > glass glasshouse1385 glass-works1626 1385 Grant by R. Suzonne, Bailiff of Atheringlow (MS in private coll.) Feare en le boys auauntdit vn Glashous et le despendre come office de Glasiere apent. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Vne voarriére, a glasse house where glasses be made. a1598 G. Longe in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. III. 158 Other men erected..divers Glasshouses in sundry parts of the Realm. 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall Proem. 8 We caus'd several such Glasses, to be blown at the Glass-house. 1711 W. King et al. Vindic. Sacheverell 98 Thou art as hot as a Glass-house. 1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 158 We could perceive the Volcano burning like the Flame of a Glass-house. 1744 S. Johnson Acct. Life R. Savage 3 [Savage]..lay down..in the Winter..among the Ashes of a Glass-house. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 577 The glass-houses are usually built in the form of a cone..The furnace is constructed in the centre of the area. 2. a. A building with walls and roof made chiefly of glass, esp. a greenhouse or conservatory. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > greenhouse or glass-house glasshousea1633 greenhouse1664 house1726 winter garden1736 plant house1800 serre1819 glass1838 tunnel house1973 1838 Penny Cycl. XI. 72/1 Glasshouses, in which plants might be grown in an artificial climate. 1880 B. Disraeli Endymion I. xxxiv. 315 Is not this lovely? How superior to anything in our glass-houses! 1885 Law Times 79 345/2 This exhibition..will be held..in the spacious glasshouse erected in the gardens for the purpose. b. A photographer's room with a glass roof. ΚΠ 1864 J. Towler Silver Sunbeam iii. 27 In many instances the artist has the privilege of superintending the construction of his glass house. 1864 J. Towler Silver Sunbeam v. 43 The camera, which is situated in the darkest part of the glass-house. c. A military prison or guardroom (see quot. 1925). Also attributive. slang. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > military provo1705 provost1728 conjee-house1835 detention barrack1906 mush1917 glasshouse1925 stockade1945 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 105 Glass house, detention barracks. An old Army expression, originally particularly applied to the detention barracks for the Aldershot Command at Woking. Later used of any place of military detention. Guard-room, Cells, etc. 1945 Penguin New Writing 26 49 But surely they didn't give you the glasshouse for going to Dunkirk? 1945 Penguin New Writing 26 49 The glasshouse man continued to recount his experiences in detention. 1946 News Chron. 2 Mar. 4/4 Glasshouse rioters' final stand... Some of the men at Northallerton barracks..holding out on the roof. 1947 J. Bertram Shadow of War 202 Someone with a lengthy ‘crime sheet’—perhaps..a notorious frequenter of the glasshouse. Compounds C1. General attributive. (Sense 1.) glasshouse fire n. ΚΠ 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 72. ¶7 The Fire, burns from Generation to Generation, and has seen the Glass-house Fires in and out above an Hundred Times. glasshouse furnace n. ΚΠ 1738 G. Smith tr. Laboratory ii. 43 Place it into a Glass-House Furnace..to digest and purify. glasshouse man n. ΚΠ 1764 T. Legg Low-life (ed. 3) 68 Stone-Sawyers, Glass-House-Men and Men belonging to the Publick Lay-Stalls. C2. glasshouse pot n. = glass-pot n. at glass n.1 Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 490 The glass-house pots are formed of the purest kinds of clay that can be procured. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 577 Glass-house pots have the figure of a truncated cone, with the narrow end undermost. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1385 |
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