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单词 jowel
释义

joweln.

Forms: Also 1700s jewell.
Etymology: Origin uncertain: compare French jouelle yoke, ‘jouelles arched, or yoaked vines; vines so vnderpropped, or fashioned that one may goe vnder the middle of them’ (Cotgrave).
Obsolete.
Apparently: one of the piers or supporters of a wooden bridge. (See explanations in quots. 1788, 1828.)
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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).
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