单词 | jowel |
释义 | † joweln. Obsolete. Apparently: one of the piers or supporters of a wooden bridge. (See explanations in quots. 1788, 1828.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > bridge > parts of pierlOE bridge foota1450 heada1450 staddling1461 foota1500 bridge end1515 jowel1516 causey1523 starling?c1684 rib1735 spur1736 icebreaker1744 jetty1772 cutwater1776 roadway1798 sleeper1823 water-breaker1823 centrya1834 stem1835 suspension-tower1842 cantilever1850 semi-beam1850 pylon1851 half-chess1853 span1862 sway-bracing1864 needle-beam1867 ice apron1871 newel1882 flood-arch1891 needle girder1898 sway-brace1909 trough flooring1911 1516 in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. vii. 6 To the..bulding of new a brige of xxj jowelles adionyng the wallis of the forsaid Citie [Carlisle] standing over the river of Eden. 1516 in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. vii. 6 Ther is bulded fyve jowelles and oon landstaple..tymber is right skant to be gotten in any parte within xx myles of the saide Citie. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Eii/1 Iowels of a bridge, columnæ. 1745 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1890) VIII. The jewells or supporters of Whitby bridge are not wide enough for the ship to come through. 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 337 Jewel, the starling of a wooden bridge. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Jowel, the space betwixt the piers of a bridge. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1516 |
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