单词 | jack weight |
释义 | jack weightn. Now historical and rare. In a roasting jack: a weight suspended from a chain or cord, used to power and regulate the motion of the spit by its descent. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > roasting-jack > parts of dog-wheel1592 jack weight1642 flyer1674 jack-pulley1675 spit-wheel1678 tumbler1678 spit-rack1693 jack flyer1731 1642 Inventory 28 Oct. in W. H. Browne Arch. Maryland (1887) IV. 97 A iack, a p[air] of spitt-racks, 3 spitts, a Jack weight, & chaine. 1659 London Chanticleers xii, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1875) XII. 352 A woman's anger should be like jack-weights—quickly up and quickly down. 1729 Daily Jrnl. 20 Feb. Finding the Doors open, they went in, and took a Leaden Jack Weight out of a Hole in the Kitchen. a1784 S. Johnson Acct. Early Life (1805) 16 I remembered a little dark room behind the kitchen, where the jack-weight fell through a hole in the floor, into which I once slipped my leg. 1843 Ainsworth's Mag. 3 180 She actually had an old jack-weight brought once a year before the kitchen fire. 1884 Bury & Norwich Post 5 Feb. They may be supplied with the following articles of their manufacture on the lowest terms..stove backs and cheeks, sash, clock, and jack weights, kitchen backs, swedge anvils, oven doors, and frames, &c. &c. 2015 A. Buxton Domest. Culture Early Mod. Eng. 128 The inventories listed 30 jacks, 3 jacks and chains and 8 jack weights. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1642 |
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