单词 | kiddle |
释义 | kiddlen. a. A dam, weir, or barrier in a river, having an opening in it fitted with nets or other appliances for catching fish. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > weir > types of mill weirlOE foot weirc1474 kiddle1477 rowte weir1584 catchwater drain1744 carry1753 dam-head1762 overfall1764 gauge-weir1791 shutter weir1880 1215 Magna Carta xxxiii, in W. Stubbs Select Charters (1895) 300 Omnes kydelli de cetero deponantur penitus de Thamisia, et de Medewaye, et per totam Angliam, nisi per costeram maris. 1275 in Bundello Escaet. de ann. 3 Edw. l. (Du Cange) Et fuit seisitus de uno Kidello vocato a were, ac de libera piscaria in Potlok. 1350 Act 25 Edw. III stat. 4. c. 4 Gortz molins estanks Estackes & kideux. 1393 Act 1 Rich. II c. 9 §1 Touz les Kydels en les ewes de Tamise.] 1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy v, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 71 Fishes love Soote smell, also it is trewe, Thei love not old Kydles as thei doe the new. 1529 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 25 Weirs and kedells erect made or inhaunced within any of the said streams. 1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 10 Alle the kydelles and trungkes thorowghout the Temse. 1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Kiddle, kidel, or kedel,..Some Fishermen corruptly call them Kettles. 1724 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) III. 233 An act for demolishing and removing Fishing Dams, Wears and Kedles set across the river Schuykill, was read. b. An arrangement of stake-nets on the sea-beach for the same purpose (see quot. 1891).The word is chiefly found in some early statutes (Latin and Anglo-French) and in later references to these: there is no clear evidence that it was actually current in sense a later than c1550. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > fish-weir or -garth weir839 fish-weirc1000 yair1178 fishgarth1454 eel-bed1483 water frith1584 frith1602 garth1609 fish-lock1661 crawl1682 fish-yard1685 fishing-pen1791 eelery1854 fishing-weir1870 crib1873 ark1883 kiddle1891 1891 Ld. Herschell in Law Times Rep. 65 566/1 A kiddle consists of a series of stakes forced into the ground occupying some 700 feet in length, with a similar row approaching them at an angle. The stakes are connected by network, and at the angle, where the two rows approach, a large net or bag is placed for the purpose of catching the fish. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as kiddle-ground, kiddle-net. ΚΠ 1629 in Boys Sandwich (1792) 749 Certain kidel grounds..where nets do use to hang upon poles..set in the sands above the low water mark to catch fish. 1741 T. Robinson Common Law of Kent ii. ix. 274 For the Use of their Kidel-Nets. 1880 F. T. Buckland Nat. Hist. Brit. Fishes 132 (E.D.D.) The mackerel here [i.e. at Rye] are caught in large fixed nets called kettle-nets. 1889 Fishing Gaz. 31 Aug. 126 (E.D.D.) The stake nets..locally [in Kent] called ‘keddle’ nets. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1477 |
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