单词 | haggaday |
释义 | haggadayn. English regional or historical in later use. 1. Originally: a ring or handle used to raise the bar of a latch. In later use: (a name for) a type of latch, esp. one which can only be opened from the outside of the door by inserting one's finger, the blade of a knife, etc., into a hole or slit made through the body of the door and lifting the bar of the latch on the inside; (also) any latch made of wood. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of door > [noun] > door fittings > devices for securing door pinlOE door-pina1300 door-bar13.. sneck1324 clicket-lock1342 haggaday1353 stecklea1400 slotec1440 rance1574 door-latch1678 door-locka1684 steeple1722 box staple1778 door-chain1836 chain1839 safety chain1845 door-catch1897 night chain1904 1353 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1952) xix. 299 [For 6 pairs of] laches [and] hagondays [for the doors of the staple house]. 1365 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1952) 299 (MED) 79 boltes, 38 wrestlacchis, and 12 hauegodaies [of iron]. 1402 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1952) 299 Rynges called hagadays. 1452–4 in J. A. Kingdon Arch. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1886) II. 341 (MED) For settyng on of iij lokkes, staplis, and hagdyes. ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 59 A haguday, vectis. 1610 Louth Churchwardens' Accts. in E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (1877) 127/1 To John Flower for hespes..a sneck, a haggaday, a catch and a Ringe for the west gate, ijs. vj d. 1846 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Haggaday, a kind of wooden latch for a door. Yorksh. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. A haggaday is frequently put upon a cottage door, on the inside, without anything projecting outwards by which it may be lifted. A little slit is made in the door, and the latch can only be raised by inserting therein a nail or slip of metal. 1974 F. Phipps Collector's Compl. Dict. Amer. Antiques 384/2 (caption) Hackaday or haggaday (wood door latch), c. 1720. 2001 A. Major Kentish as she wus Spoke 18 Haggaday, a type of door latch where the blade is put through the door to lift the latch, opened from the outside only. 2. In form hagoday. (The ring of) the sanctuary knocker of a church.There seems to be no evidence that this is an original, early name for a sanctuary knocker. This use most likely arose in the 19th cent. through confusion of the ring used to open and close a latched door (sense 1) with the sanctuary ring knockers seen at Durham Cathedral and other churches (cf. ring knocker n. (a) at ring n.1 Compounds 2a). ΚΠ 1868 M. E. C. Walcott Sacred Archæol. 526 At Hexham and St. Gregory's, Norwich.., the sanctuary ring knocker, or hagoday, remains on the north door. 1890 Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Archeol. Soc. 1889–90 14 131 Through the monster's mouth hangs a massive ring which in days gone by served as the Hagoday or Sanctuary Knocker. 1912 Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archæol. Jrnl. 18 29 So soon as the fugitive laid hold on the ring or hagoday he was safe. 1929 Courier & Advertiser (Dundee) 1 Aug. 6/5 The great knocker, or hagoday, on the north door of Durham Cathedral is a magnificent piece of early bronze. 2007 S. M. Psznecker Gargoyles iv. 58 Another kind of carved head was the Hagoday, a head carved in the shape of a human, animal, or in some cases, the sun, with a large knocker or ‘closing ring’ held in the creature's mouth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1353 |
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