单词 | hand quern |
释义 | > as lemmashand quern hand quern n. [compare Old Icelandic hand-kvern] ΚΠ OE Recipe (Wellcome 75.46) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1890) 84 326 Nime þonne clænne lengtenbere & grinde on handcwyrna. OE Ælfric Old Test. Summary: Judges (Laud) xvi. 21 in S. J. Crawford Old Eng. Version of Heptateuch (1922) 413 Hi..heton hine grindan æt hira handcwyrne [L. molere fecerunt]. 1597 A. Hartwell tr. D. Lopes Rep. Kingdome of Congo ii. i. 110 When it is grinded with Hand-Quernes..it yeeldeth a very white meale. 1707 E. Lhuyd Archæologia Britannica x. 430/2 Gaımhean, a skin used under the hand quern to receive the meal. 1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. II. v. 26 The only mills for grinding corn were hand-querns, turned by a woman's hand. 1990 Antiquaries Jrnl. 70 30 Current studies of hand querns..appear to demonstrate differences in the form of beehive querns. < as lemmas |
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