单词 | hipple |
释义 | hipplen. English regional (Yorkshire) after Middle English. A collection or mass of things gathered together; a heap or pile of something; spec. (esp. in later use) a small stack or bundle of hay, set up to dry before being gathered into cocks. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > mass formed by collection of particles > an accumulation > heap or pile > small hippleOE hotc1700 coop1825 OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 264 In rubicundas [gemmarum] congeries : on reade hyplas uel gegæderunge uel hepan. OE Ælfric Gram. (Corpus Cambr.) 304 Aceruus, hreac oððe hypel [altered from hype; OE St. John's Oxf. hype, c1225 Worcester hupel]. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xvii. 1 Damasch shal..be as an hypil [a1425 L.V. heep; L. acervus] of stones. a1425 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (Pierpont Morgan) xvii. lxxii [Hay is] gadered and made of heples into cockes. 1482 W. Caxton tr. Higden's Prolicionycion i. xxii. f. xxvv Heepes and huppels of stones and of grauel. 1788 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 141 As the hay has advanced in dryness, the hipples are increased in size. 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 335 Hipples, cocklets, or small bundles of hay set up to dry. 1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Hipple, a small hay-cock, or rather a small heap of half-made hay, the drying process being not as yet quite completed. 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 61/1 Hipple, a very small heap of hay, into which hay is put when not dry enough to cock. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adverb] > accumulatively > so as to form a heap or pile > in or by heaps hipplemeala1382 acervately1846 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Wisd. xviii. 23 Whan forsothe now hipyllmelum [L. acervatim] thei hadden fallen dead, either vp on other. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE |
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