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单词 herringbone
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herringbonen.adj.

1.
a. The bone of a herring.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Clupeidae and herrings > member of > parts of
cob1594
herringbone1652
1652 Season. Exp. Netherl. 8 I was pleased to hear so rich a Towne..could be Founded on Herring-Bones.
1857 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) I. 709/2 The popular saying of being founded on herring-bones is as applicable to the thriving town of Wick, as Amsterdam.
b. plural. Small cirrocumulus clouds (cf. mackerel sky n.).
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1905 Westm. Gaz. 22 Apr. 4/2 The sky was sunny, but mottled in the north-west with ‘herring-bones’, which prophesied wind.
c. plural. The herring-bone-line hatching used to represent mountains on a map.
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1900 E. T. Fowler Farringdons v ‘I see. And please what are the mountain-ranges that you are drawing now?’ ‘These,’ replied Elisabeth, covering her map with herring~bones, ‘are your scruples.’
d. Furniture. (See quot. 1952.)
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > inlaying, etc., in wood > [adjective] > types of inlaid work
Tunbridge1773
intarsia1867
herringbone1937
1937 Burlington Mag. July 45/2 All the ornament required is to be found in the finely figured wood, the craftsmanship displayed in the herringbone and cross-banded borders.
1952 J. Gloag Short Dict. Furnit. 285 Herringbone, patterns in the form of a herring bone were used on the banding of drop fronts on early 18th century walnut furniture.
1960 H. Hayward Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 142/1 Herring-bone banding, a decorative veneer border much used on walnut furniture of the late 17th and early 18th cent. consisting of two narrow strips of veneer laid together diagonally forming a pattern resembling a herring-bone or feather [etc.].
e. Skiing. (See quot. 1924.) Also attributive.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > [noun] > actions of skier
side slipping1832
herringbone1904
herringboning1904
traverse1905
side-slip1913
ploughing1924
sitzmark1930
schussing1961
angulation1963
unweighting1969
1904 D. M. M. C. Somerville et al. Ski-running 35 A short, steep bit of slope may be overcome by the methods illustrated in Figs. 12 and 13, but both are fatiguing,..especially the ‘herring bone’.
1924 Tourist Winter Sports No. 12/1 Herring-bone, a method of climbing without kick-turns which leaves tracks like the well-known stitch.
1972 ‘M. Yorke’ Silent Witness iii. 58 [Her] muscles always screamed after..side-stepping or herring~bone climbing.
2. attributive or adj. Resembling in appearance the bones of a herring.
a. herringbone stitch n. Sewing a kind of stitch in which the threads are set obliquely at equal angles on opposite sides of a line, or crossing each other: hence herringbone seam, herringbone thread. Also absol. = herringbone stitch n., etc.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > stitch > other
chain-stitch1598
French knot1623
picot1623
petty-point1632
tent-stitch1639
brede-stitch1640
herringbone stitch1659
satin stitch1664
feather-stitch1835
Gobelin stitch1838
crowfoot1839
seedingc1840
German stitch1842
petit point1842
long stitch1849
looped stitch1851
hem-stitch1853
loop-stitch1853
faggot stitch1854
spider-wheel1868
dot stitch1869
picot stitch1869
slip-stitch1872
coral-stitch1873
stem stitch1873
rope stitch1875
Vienna cross stitch1876
witch stitch1876
pin stitch1878
seed stitch1879
cushion-stitch1880
Japanese stitch1880
darning-stitch1881
Kensington stitch1881
knot-stitch1881
bullion knot1882
cable pattern1882
Italian stitch1882
lattice-stitch1882
queen stitch1882
rice stitch1882
shadow-stitch1882
ship-ladder1882
spider-stitch1882
stem1882
Vandyke stitch1882
warp-stitch1882
wheel-stitch1882
basket-stitch1883
outline stitch1885
pointing1888
bullion stitchc1890
cable-stitchc1890
oriental stitchc1890
Turkish stitchc1890
Romanian stitch1894
shell-stitch1895
saddle stitch1899
magic stitch1900
plumage-stitch1900
saddle stitching1902
German knot stitch1903
trellis1912
padding stitch1913
straight stitch1918
Hungarian stitch1921
trellis stitch1921
lazy daisy1923
diamond stitchc1926
darning1930
faggot filling stitch1934
fly stitch1934
magic chain stitch1934
glove stitch1964
pad stitch1964
1659 G. Torriano Florio's Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese A-spina pesce,..the hearing-bone stitch.
1767 B. Gooch Pract. Treat. Wounds I. 453 That kind of stitch called by sempstresses the herring-bone or a flat seam.
1866 R. Chambers Ess. 1st Ser. 198 Causes your clothes to be..embroidered in the herring-bone fashion.
1880 Plain Hints 24 Herring-bone, called ‘cat's teeth’ in the West of England, is the name of the stitch used for flannel work.
b. Architecture. Applied to a kind of masonry and of paving in which the stones or tiles are set obliquely in alternate rows so as to form a zigzag pattern: as herringbone ashlar, herringbone balk, herringbone bond, herringbone work, etc.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [adjective] > specific dispositions
herringbone1700
random1703
brick-on-edge1750
Cyclopean1822
uncoursed1825
long and short1835
inbond1842
throughband1844
isodomous1850
coursed1851
brick veneer1881
out-bond1882
joint-bedded1883
snecked1883
rat-trap bond1932
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > [adjective] > paved > in specific way
pitched1611
herringbone1700
crazy1923
1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 2 They make a good Pavement, and..[it] looks handsomly, especially if laid Herring-bone fashion.
1845 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 4) 199 The interior, or backing, of Roman walls is often of irregular herring-bone work.
1848 J. H. Parker Rickman's Styles Archit. Eng. (ed. 5) App. 36 Rude and wide jointed rag-work, with some herring-bone.
1853 Archaeologia 35 384 The walls to this room were 3 feet thick, with herring-bone masonry.
1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times iv. 112 Incised patterns in which the chevron or herring-bone constantly recurs.
c. Weaving and Clothmaking. Applied to stuffs in which a zigzag pattern (as in b) is worked: as herringbone twill, herringbone-weaving. Also absol., a stuff having a herringbone pattern.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > patterned > chevron or zig-zag
vandyking1819
herringbone1860
chevron-cloth1884
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [adjective] > patterned > other
watered1568
water1586
Paisley1790
herringbone1860
1860 All Year Round 28 Apr. 63 Barragons and fustians, herringbones, thicksets..dimities and velveteens, for which Bolton was famous.
1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 252/2 Herringbone Twill. A name by which a soft slight dress material is known.
1887 Cassell's Family Mag. Oct. 697/1 With an interwoven corded stripe, with chevron or herring-bone weaving between.
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d. herringbone bridging n. Carpentry ‘strutting-pieces between thin joists, diagonally from the top of one to the bottom of another, to prevent lateral deflection’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875).
e. herringbone coralline n. (see quots.).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > order Campanulariae > member of family Sertulariidae
sea-fir1633
shrub coral1681
coralline1721
coralloid1750
sea-coralline1753
herringbone coralline1755
sea-beard1755
tree-coral1871
1755 J. Ellis Ess. Nat. Hist. Corallines 17 Herring-bone Coralline. This Coralline is often found sticking to Oysters as they are brought to the London Market, during the Winter-season.
1850 A. Pratt Chapters Common Things Sea-side 258 The Herring-bone Coralline (‘Halecium halecinum’) which grows on stones and shells, in the deep parts of the sea.
1915 E. R. Lankester Diversions of Naturalist 97 Very minute jelly-fish,..[which] originate as buds from small branching polyps, one kind of which is common on oyster-shells, and is called ‘the herring-bone coralline’.
f. Designating a type of milking parlour in which the stalls are arranged in a herringbone pattern.
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1957 Farmer & Stockbreeder 9 Apr. 45/1 The yard and parlour system obviously attracts those changing over to dairying and the main interest centred on the..herring~bone parlour design.
1963 Farmer & Stockbreeder 5 Mar. 33/2 (advt.) Gascoigne milking systems. Herringbone parlour for batch milking.
1970 Times 9 Mar. 13/5 Another innovation costs £120 a milking stall, or £600 for this item alone in the five-point herringbone parlour.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

herringbonev.

Etymology: < herringbone n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈherring-bone.
1. transitive. To work with a herringbone stitch. Also absol. or intransitive.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > embroider or ornament with sewing > in other ways
couchc1405
clock1521
nerve1532
re-embroider1659
herringbone1787
hem-stitcha1839
wavela1844
to lay on1880
darn1882
faggot1883
feather-stitch1884
overcast1891
clox1922
needlepoint1975
1787 S. Trimmer Œcon. Charity 79 Plain linen Caps, with binders herring-boned with coloured Cruel.
1873 R. Broughton Nancy II. 101 She has been teaching me how to herring-bone.
1880 Plain Hints 25 The raw edge should be herring-boned down about four or six threads deep.
2. transitive. To mark with a herringbone pattern.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > pattern [verb (transitive)] > geometric
diaperc1400
chevron1543
diaprize1626
chequer1633
dice1694
check1798
herringbone1887
1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders III. v. 101 A sanded floor, herring-boned with a broom.
1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders III. xv. 307 The herring-boned sand of the floor.
3. To make (a wall, floor, etc.) of herringbone work.
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1907 W. De Morgan Alice-for-Short ix A 'erring-boned brick floor.
4. Skiing. (See herringbone n. 1e.)
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > ski [verb (intransitive)] > actions of skier
run1654
sidestep1894
herringbone1904
traverse1905
side-skid1906
side-slip1913
sitzmark1935
angulate1963
schuss1963
unweight1981
1904 [see herringboning n. at Derivatives].
1914 Queen 17 Jan. 128/2 He climbed very quickly, looking uncommonly like a monkey up a stick as he herring-boned in jerks up the slope.
1919 Cent. Mag. May 43/1 ‘You're herring-boning!’ shouted Dean. ‘Don't herring-bone! We'll come to that later.’
1946 H. Croome Faithless Mirror 55 Half a dozen boys herringboning up from the road.
1946 H. Croome Faithless Mirror 67 Half a dozen skiers herringboned up the trail towards them.

Derivatives

ˈherringboned adj.
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1907 [see sense 3].
herringboning n.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > [noun] > actions of skier
side slipping1832
herringbone1904
herringboning1904
traverse1905
side-slip1913
ploughing1924
sitzmark1930
schussing1961
angulation1963
unweighting1969
1904 D. M. M. C. Somerville et al. Ski-running 35 (caption) Herring-boning.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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