单词 | halch |
释义 | halchv. a. (a) transitive. To embrace (a person); to clasp (a person) in one's arms. Cf. halse v.2 1a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [verb (transitive)] clipc950 freeOE beclipc1000 windc1175 fang?c1200 yokec1275 umgripea1300 to take in (also into, on) one's armsc1300 umbefold14.. collc1320 lapc1350 bracec1375 embracec1386 clapa1400 folda1400 halsea1400 umbeclapa1400 accollc1400 fathomc1400 halchc1400 haspc1400 hoderc1440 plighta1450 plet?a1500 cuddlec1520 complect1523 umbfoldc1540 clasp1549 culla1564 cully1576 huggle1583 embosom1590 wrap1594 collya1600 cling1607 bosom1608 grasp1609 comply1648 huddlea1650 smuggle1679 inarm1713 snuggle1775 cwtch1965 c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 939 He hym þonkked þroly, & ayþer halched oþer. (b) intransitive. With upon. To throw one's arms around (a person); to embrace and cling onto (a person). Obsolete. rare.In quot. perhaps deliberately archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [verb (intransitive)] clipc1305 halchc1650 clinch1900 c1650 Marriage Sir Gawaine in J. W. Hales & F. J. Furnivall Bp. Percy's Folio MS (1867) I. 110 To halch vpon him, King Arthur, this lady was full faine. b. transitive. To salute (a person or thing); to hail; to greet. Cf. halse v.1 3. Obsolete. rare.figurative in quot. ?c1600. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use courteous actions or expressions to [verb (transitive)] > greet or salute greetOE i-gretec1000 hailc1175 anourec1300 saluec1300 hailse1377 salutec1380 salusc1440 halsec1480 begreet1513 enhalse1563 congratulate1589 halch?c1600 regreet1607 to give the day (to)1613 ?c1600 (c1515) Sc. Field (Lyme) l. 99 in I. F. Baird Poems Stanley Family (D.Phil. thesis, Univ. of Birm.) (1990) 233 When he heard how unkindly his townes they were halched, He piked him to Parice for things that might happen. c1650 Earle Westmorland l. 27 in F. J. Furnivall Bp. Percy's Folio MS (1867) I. 301 The Lord Hume halched them right soon, saying, ‘banished men, welcome to mee!’ c1650 Carle off Carlile (Percy) l. 190 in J. W. Hales & F. J. Furnivall Bp. Percy's Folio MS (1868) III. 284 When Sir Gawaine that carle see, he halched him ffull curteouslye, & saith, ‘..god saue thee.’ 2. a. transitive. To fasten (something); to tie; to knot. Chiefly English regional in later use. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > bind or tie [verb (transitive)] > bind with cord, string, or tie tiec1000 halchc1400 lacec1405 cable?1507 twitch1612 lash1624 wup1808 snub1888 zip-tie1985 c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 185 Þat half his armes þer-vnder were halched in þe wyse Of a kyngeȝ capados. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1852 For quat gome so is gorde with þis grene lace, While he hit hade hemely halched aboute. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Halsh, to tie, to fasten, to knot. 1895 J. T. Clegg Stories, Sketches, & Rhymes in Rochdale Dial. 398 They desarven to have a taugh clooas line halshed reaund their throttles. 1901 S. Warburton in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1902) III. 36/1 [Lancashire] Halsh those two poles t'gether. 1908 Textile Amer. Oct. 15/2 After slackening the reel swift for doffing, the skeins are halched in divisions of knots of ten or twenty. ΚΠ 1880 Marine Engineer Dec. 438/1 Where the apparatus..is at work, it is found that very much fewer ‘noses’ or, points of cops, are ‘halched’ or entangled. 1892 J. Nasmith Students' Cotton Spinning 286 As yarn is always wound off a cop by drawing it upwards,..any such condition of the cop nose results in a number of coils being drawn off simultaneously in an entangled condition. In this case the cop is said to be ‘halched’, and a good deal of waste is produced when the unwinding takes place. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.c1400 |
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