单词 | ironen |
释义 | ironenadj. Now rare (English regional (south-western) in later use). Made or consisting of iron; = iron adj. 1. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [adjective] > made of iron ironeOE ironenc1175 ironeda1400 ironishc1429 sidereous1830 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 19821 Herode..band himm wiþþ irnene band. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 149 (MED) Þenne wule his heorte ake, alse his fet and his honde if heo þurh irnene neile were þurh-stunge. a1350 ( in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 20 (MED) Þe body hongeþ at þe galewes faste, wiþ yrnene claspes longe to laste. c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 5822 Hij weren redy in þat stede..And pliȝtten hym jn wiþ yrnen hoke. 1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 7106 (MED) Yche spook..Ful of yirnene sawys shul be set. a1500 (?a1400) Stanzaic Life of Christ (Harl. 3909) (1926) l. 8006 Dewlus connon rene, & irnen ȝates steken fas. 1832 W. Barnes in Gentleman's Mag. 102 Suppl. 593/2 The adjective ending en..is quite neglected by the learned, though the common people still use it regularly... A paper bag, a bag for papers, and a papern bag, one made of paper; an iron tool, one for working in iron, and an ironen tool one of iron, and so on. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Ironen, made of iron... This use is emphatic—i.e. of iron and of nothing else. 1891 R. P. Chope Dial. Hartland, Devonshire 101 Ironen, made of iron. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1175 |
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