单词 | ground-wall |
释义 | † ground-walln. Obsolete. 1. The lower portion of a wall or building: a foundation. Also transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > foundations groundc950 ground-wallc1000 fundamentc1300 foundation1398 sole1417 paepae1846 raft1891 raft foundation1895 c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) vi. 48 He ys gelic timbriendum men his hus, se..hys grundweall ofer þæne stan asette. c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) 289 Se cræft is ealra boclicra cræfta ordfruma and grundweall. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 13372 Crist iss stan to ben grunndwall Off all hiss hallȝhe temmple. a1225 Juliana 72 Lokeð þat te heouenlich lauerd beo grundwal of al þat ȝe wurcheð. c1275 Luue Ron 124 in Old Eng. Misc. 97 Ne may no Mynur hire [? hit] vnderwrote ne neuer false þene grundwal. a1300 Cursor Mundi 2242 Tua and sexti fathum brad Was þe grundwall þat þai made. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 210 A castelle he þouht to reise, He cast þe groundwalle þik. 1392–3 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 114 In salar. iij cementariorum operant. super j Grundewall ibidem per iiij dies, 5s. [From other passages, this app. means: The plinth of masonry in a half timber building.] a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8424 Lere o clerge well he sal, þat es o wisdom þe grundwall. c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 667/11 Hoe fundum, growndwalle. 2. A retaining wall (see quot. 1712). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > wall > types of mud walla1395 ground-wall1712 retaining wall1771 cob wall1790 wing-wall1791 honeycomb wall1850 toe wall1934 1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 206 The Wall..from the Bottom of the Digging, to the Level of the Ground above..is called the Ground-Wall, because it is built only to resist the Pressure of the Ground about it. DerivativesΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > builder of walls > types of ground-waller1477 diker1497 cowan1598 rough waller1614 sea-waller1790 stone-diker1901 1477 Order in York Myst. (1885) Introd. 21 (note) Erthe wallers, pavers, dykers, ground wallers with erthe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.c1000 |
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