单词 | grizzly |
释义 | grizzlyn.2 Mining (originally U.S.). A grating of parallel iron bars with interstices between to allow the finer material to fall into the sluices below while the larger stones are screened off. ΚΠ 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 56 The débris..is again caught up, the bowlders precipitated over a ‘grizzly’ into the cañon below [etc.]. 1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 746/1. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 143 Grizzly, Pac[ific Coast], a grating to catch and throw out large stones from sluices. 1893 T. Reunert Diamonds & Gold 106 In a well-designed mill, the ore trammed from the mine is dumped onto ‘grizzlies’, or strong inclined gratings. 1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 200 Grizzly, the screen employed on the Rand gold mines to separate the fine material from the coarse. 1989 B. Courtenay Power of One xxiii. 478 These six tungsten bars are known as a grizzly... Tungsten bars were made in Canada, hence ‘grizzly bars’. 2001 W. A. Hustrulid & R. L. Bullock Underground Mining Methods i. 13/1 As chute loading requires controlled fragmentation, the rock had to pass through a grizzly before it entered the ore pass. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). grizzlyadj.1n.1 A. adj.1 a. Grey; greyish; grey-haired; grizzled. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [adjective] greyeOE grisc1386 grizzlec1425 grison1438 kennet-colour1530 grisy1590 grizzly1594 grisard1607 the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > grey, hoary grey1207 hoarc1290 frostya1450 forhoaredc1450 grizzled1458 hoary1530 hoared1557 greyish1567 wintry1579 silver1590 silveredc1600 silver-grey1607 frosted1628 iron-grey1809 iron-greyed1826 grizzly1843 1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne iv. 141 A beard bigge, bushy, knotted gristelly. a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) i. ii. 239 His Beard was grisly [1603 grisleld, 1604 grissl'd]? 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §851 Old Squirrels, that turne Grisly. 1694 J. Wood in W. Dampier et al. Coll. Voy. (1729) IV. ii. 109 We..came to an Anchor in eleven Fathom Water greisly Sand. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lxxviii. 259 Her matted griesly hair. 1770 G. White Let. Mar. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 79 The colour was a grizzly black. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 184 The colour of the body is grizly, and beset with bristles. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge i. 233 He had a grizzly jagged beard of some three weeks' date. 1843 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Heath's Bk. Beauty 178 A middle-aged gentleman, tall, round-shouldered, somewhat grizzly. 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 274 Rojate, the next town,..grim and grizzly,..looked drearier. 1868 C. M. Yonge Cameos 1st Ser. i. 10 He was an old grizzly warrior. b. grizzly bear n. a large and ferocious bear, Ursus horribilis, peculiar to the mountainous districts of western North America; also, the name of an American dance in which the hug and walk of a bear are imitated. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Ursidae (bear) > [noun] > genus Ursus > ursus arctos > brown or grizzly bear bruin1481 Russian bear1607 game-beara1640 white bear1791 grizzly bear1807 grizzly1808 old man1886 silver-tip1886 society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other dances > [noun] dance of Macabre?c1430 springc1450 lege de moya1529 bobc1550 lusty gallant1569 duret1613 fading1613 huckler1617 ground-measure1621 entry1631 slatter de pouchc1640 ballo1651 Irish trot1651 omnium gatheruma1652 clutterdepouch1652 upspring1654 passacaglia1659 shuffle1659 passacaille1667 flip-flap1676 chaconne1685 charmer1702 Cheshire-round1706 Louvre1729 stick dance1730 white joke1730 baby dance1744 Nancy Dawson1766 fricassee1775 bumpkin1785 Totentanz1789 Flora('s) dance1790 goombay1790 egg-dance1801 supper dance1820 Congo dance1823 slip-jig1829 bran-dance1833 roly-poly1833 Congo1835 mazy1841 furry1848 bull-dance1855 stampede1856 double-shuffling1859 frog dance1863 hokee-pokee1873 plait dance1876 slow dancing1884 snake dance1895 beast dance1900 soft-shoe1900 cakewalk1902 floral dance1911 snake dance1911 apache dance1912 grizzly bear1912 jazz dance1917 jazz dancing1917 jazz1919 wine-dance1920 camel-walk1921 furry dance1928 snake-dance1931 pas d'action1936 trance dancing1956 touch dance1965 hokey-cokey1966 moonwalk1969 moonwalking1983 Crip Walk1989 mapantsula1990 1807 P. Gass Jrnls. 221 The bears from which they get these skins are a harmless kind, and not so bold and ferocious as the grizly and brown bear. 1859 R. B. Marcy Prairie Traveler vii. 247 The grizzly bear is assuredly the monarch of the American forests. 1912 Lit. Digest 30 Mar. 656/2 Steps that would have ruled him off any cotillion floor in New York in these days of the ban on the grizzly-bear and kindred dances. 1928 F. S. Fitzgerald in Sat. Evening Post 29 Sept. 118 They moved around the room, locked in the convulsive grip of the grizzly bear. 1959 M. T. Williams Art of Jazz (1960) xii. 109 The halls where they had so recently danced the Grizzly Bear and the Buzzard Lope to the music of the jazz bands. c. grizzly king, grizzly queen: the names of artificial flies for angling. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > types of moor flylOE drake-flya1450 dub-flya1450 dun cut1496 dun fly1496 louper1496 red fly1616 moorish fly1635 palmer1653 palmer fly1653 red hackle1653 red palmer1653 shell-fly1653 orange fly1662 blackfly1669 dun1676 dun hackle1676 hackle1676 mayfly1676 peacock fly1676 thorn-tree fly1676 turkey-fly1676 violet-fly1676 whirling dun1676 badger fly1681 greenfly1686 moorish brown1689 prime dun1696 sandfly1700 grey midge1724 whirling blue1747 dun drake?1758 death drake1766 hackle fly1786 badger1787 blue1787 brown-fly1787 camel-brown1787 spinner1787 midge1799 night-fly1799 thorn-fly1799 turkey1799 withy-fly1799 grayling fly1811 sun fly1820 cock-a-bondy1835 brown moth1837 bunting-lark fly1837 governor1837 water-hen hackle1837 Waterloo fly1837 coachman1839 soldier palmer1839 blue jay1843 red tag1850 canary1855 white-tip1856 spider1857 bumble1859 doctor1860 ibis1863 Jock Scott1866 eagle1867 highlander1867 jay1867 John Scott1867 judge1867 parson1867 priest1867 snow-fly1867 Jack Scott1874 Alexandra1875 silver doctor1875 Alexandra fly1882 grackle1894 grizzly queen1894 heckle-fly1897 Zulu1898 thunder and lightning1910 streamer1919 Devon1924 peacock1950 1894 Outing 24 227/1 Bass flies of proved merit include the bob white, grizzly queen, grizzly king. B. n.1 The grizzly bear. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Ursidae (bear) > [noun] > genus Ursus > ursus arctos > brown or grizzly bear bruin1481 Russian bear1607 game-beara1640 white bear1791 grizzly bear1807 grizzly1808 old man1886 silver-tip1886 1808 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) iii. App. 7 North Mexico produces elk, deer, buffalo, cabrie, the gresley, black bear, and wild horses. 1859 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) I. 400 The Grizzly, or ‘Ephraim’ as the creature is familiarly termed by the hunters. 1879 I. L. Bird Lady's Life Rocky Mts. 18 A man..asked me if I were the English tourist who had ‘happened on’ a ‘grizzlie’ yesterday. Derivatives ˈgrizzliness n. rare ΚΠ 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. xi. 152 The Don..like an Ape..shews himselfe to be descended from Hercules by the melan-pygitie (that is, the grizlinesse) of his posteriours. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). grizzlyadj.2 colloquial. Inclined to grizzle or complain whiningly; fretful, fractious, peevish. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > peevishness > [adjective] protervec1384 teethya1500 peevishc1530 protervous1547 pettish1552 tatter1579 fretting1587 teeny1594 frampold1599 treaf1601 fretful1603 teety1621 frappish1631 froppish1659 huffy1680 toothy1691 peenging1724 fractious1725 crossish1740 huffish1755 petulant1755 refractious1761 pouty1799 pensy1803 fudgy1819 twiney1824 rammista1838 fretty1844 petful1852 patchy1862 fretsome1870 grizzly1900 anfractuous1923 the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [adjective] > complaining > peevishly or querulously girning1447 querulousc1475 quarrellous1490 whining15.. wailish?1548 querimonious1604 whinging1720 peeping1786 honing1802 whiny1854 Peter Grievous1875 grizzly1900 bellyaching1931 1900 Eng. Dial. Dict. II. 735/1 Grizzly,..fretful, peevish. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren x. 178 A short-tempered person is spoken of as being: catty.., grizzly, niggled or niggly. 1988 Mother & Baby Apr. 21/3 He was very grizzly and unsettled—until I bought a baby sling and started to carry him round with me. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.21877adj.1n.11594adj.21900 |
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