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单词 grantham gruel
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Grantham gruel
2. A light, liquid food (chiefly used as an article of diet for invalids) made by boiling oatmeal (or occasionally some other farinaceous substance) in water or milk, sometimes with the addition of other ingredients, as butter, sugar, spices, onions, etc. Grantham gruel (see quot. 1818). See also water gruel n. and adj.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > gruel or broth for invalids > [noun]
gruel1362
water gruel?c1450
cullisc1460
chicken brothc1540
coulis1603
barley-milk1607
maize-cream1626
chicken water1684
barley-cream1694
thin gruel1699
viper-broth1702
wangracea1733
barley-gruel1769
beef-tea1783
conjee1789
Revalenta1848
skink1880
toast-water1905
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. vii. 169 A bolleful of gruwel.
c1400 tr. Lanfranc's Cirurg. 13 He schal ete for his mete growel maad of otemele, eiþir of barli mele wiþ almaundis.
c1450 Middle Eng. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 77 Take otenmele & cow mylke and make grewel.
?1518 A. Barclay Fyfte Eglog sig. Aiij Sethynge some grewell, and sterynge the pulment Of peese or frument.
1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. L iv Beane of Egypt..is good..taken wyth beane mele after the maner of grewelle.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Orgée, barlie gruell.
1634 J. Taylor Great Eater of Kent 12 His appetite..neuer..needed the assistance of cawdle, iulep, alebery, cullise, grewell, or stewd-broth.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 82/2 Grewel, is a kind of Broth made only of Water, Grotes brused and Currans, some add Mace, sweet Herbs, Butter and Eggs and Sugar: some call it Pottage Gruel.
1728 E. Young Love of Fame v, in Wks. (1757) I. 123 Cooling gruel, and composing tea.
1791 W. Nicholson tr. J. A. C. Chaptal Elements Chem. III. iv. iii. 102 The Icelanders obtain a very delicate gruel with the fecula of the lichen Icelandicus.
1816 J. Austen Emma I. xii. 221 A basin of nice smooth gruel, thin, but not too thin. View more context for this quotation
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 86 Thou wilt get naething at night save Grantham gruel, nine grots and a gallon of water.
1869 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 2nd Ser. 28 A sinful preference of roast mutton over gruel.
in extended use.a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 32 Make the Grewell thicke, and slab. View more context for this quotation1842 R. H. Barham St. Medard in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 286 And he hurl'd it straight At the Saint's bald pate, To knock out ‘the gruel he call'd his brains’.proverbial.c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 662 (711) So thriue I this nyght shal I make it wel, Or casten al þe Growel in þe fyre.
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