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单词 kemp
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kempn.1

Brit. /kɛmp/, U.S. /kɛmp/
Forms: Old English cempa, ( cæmpa), Middle English cempe, Middle English kempe, (Middle English kimppe), Middle English–1500s, 1800s, kemp.
Etymology: Old English cęmpa weak masculine = Old Frisian kempa , kampa , Old Saxon *kempio (Middle Dutch kemp(e , kimp(e , Middle Low German kempe ), Old High German chemph(i)o (Middle High German kempfe ; German kämpe , < Low German, for earlier kämpfe ) < West Germanic *kampjōn- . It is doubtful whether this is an independent formation < kamp- (camp n.1) battle, or < late Latin campiōn-em (see campion n.1).
Obsolete exc. dialect.
1. A big, strong, and brave warrior or athlete; a professional fighter, wrestler, etc.; a champion.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > [noun] > prizefighter or professional fighter
kempa700
cockera1275
prizera1616
prizefighter1682
kempery-mana1765
kempy1821
kemper1891
a700 Epinal Gloss. 481 Gladiatores, caempan [Erfurt cempan].
995 Death of Byrhtnoth 119 Him æt fotum feoll fæge cempa.
a1175 Cott. Hom. 243 Gif we ofercumed heom we scule bien imersed alle gode cempen.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 146 Inþe fecht to ȝeines ham. habiȝeoteð þe blisfule kempene crune.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 1036 He was for a kempe told.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 3352 Oþer kud kempes.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur vii. viii They rasshed to gyders lyke two myghty kempys.
1527 Accts. Ld. High Treasurer Scotl. in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. I. *271 Item, to John Drummond, callit the kingis kemp..xv li.
1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 33 Albeit thir twa ȝoure kempis dar not for schame ansuer in this mater.
1818 R. Jamieson in E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. (ed. 5) I. Introd. p. lxii Hammer Donald..(like Viga Glum and other celebrated Kemps and homicides of the North).
1832 W. Motherwell Poems (1847) 7 In starkest fight where kemp to kemp, Reel headlong to the grave.
1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Kemp, an impetuous youth.
2. = kemper n. a.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > contest at reaping > competitor
kemp1573
kempera1598
1573 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlii. 276 All the corne of the Countrie Be kempis hes not bene schorne, we see.
3. Scottish. A seed-stalk of the ribwort ( Plantago lanceolata), used in a children's game: see quot. 1825. [So Norwegian kjæmpe, Swedish kämpa.] Cf. cock n.1 6.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Plantaginaceae > [noun] > parts of
bent1612
cock's head1787
benting1802
kemp1825
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Two children, or young people, pull each a dozen of stalks of rib-grass; and try who, with his kemp, can decapitate the greatest number of those belonging to his opponent.
1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 170 It is customary with children to challenge each other to try the ‘kemps’.
1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words They are called by children kemps or ‘soldiers’, and are used to kemp or fight with.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

kempn.2

Brit. /kɛmp/, U.S. /kɛmp/
Origin: Apparently a borrowing from early Scandinavian.
Etymology: apparently the same as camp n.4, < Old Norse kamp-r beard, moustache, whisker of a cat, lion, etc.
A coarse or stout hair, as those of the eyebrows (obsolete); now, hair of this kind occurring among wool. Also in compounds: kemp-hair n. kemp-haired adj.
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the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [noun] > coarse or bristling
bristlea1300
kempc1386
wire hair1817
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > coarse hair in
kempa1642
c1386 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1276 Lik a grifphon looked he aboute, With kempe [v.r. keempe] heeris on hise browes stoute.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Eiii/2 Kemp haire, grandebala.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 11 To cutte of all the shaggie hairy wolle... This the shepheards call forcinge of them, and cutting of kempehaires.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 12 Sheepe which..are thinne skinn'd..or kempe hair'd.
1805 J. Luccock Nature & Prop. Wool 170 Its staple was perfectly free from kemps and wild hair, so common upon the backs of northern sheep.
1849 Rowlandson in Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 10 ii. 436 The fineness of the Ryeland fleece and freedom from kemps.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

kempn.3

Obsolete. rare.
? A barrel or cask.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > barrel or cask > [noun]
barrelc1300
kovec1320
rubbour1362
bossc1375
rundlet1380
cade1387
kemp1391
cuve14..
keup1480
tonnel1483
colle?a1500
fostella1510
cap1519
firkett1523
cask1557
butt1572
botozio1622
rindell1640
drum1871
1391 Earl Derby's Exp. (Camden) 77/22 Pro ij kempes de rubiis allecibus.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 270/2 Kempe of herynge, or spyrlynge.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

kempn.4

Obsolete. rare.
A kind of eel.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Anguilliformes > unspecified types
pimpernol1251
shaft-eel1411
kempc1440
snig1483
stub eel15..
fausen1547
shafflin1553
muraena1555
scaffling1589
grig1611
long-fish1611
stone-grig1666
sea-serpent1752
bed-eel1769
sniggle1863
slipper1866
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 270/2 Kempe eel [no Latin].
?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. Bijv Fed..with crudde Or slymy kempes, yll smellyng of the mudde.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Kempe or small eale, anguilula.
1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland II. 243 Kemp also means a sort of eel.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

kempn.5

Brit. /kɛmp/, U.S. /kɛmp/, Scottish English /kɛmp/
Etymology: < kemp v.
Scottish.
A contest, esp. of reapers when kemping.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > contest at reaping
kemping1793
kemp1794
1794 Har'st Rig lxxii. 24 The Master..cries wi' haste, ‘come, lads, forbear, This kemp let be.’
1844 M. A. Richardson Local Historian's Table Bk. Legendary Div. II. 372 The stormy Kemp, or emulous struggle for the honour of the ridge-end.
1870 J. K. Hunter Life Stud. Char. Pref. (E.D.D.) What ever lesson we began to, we gaed at it just like a kemp on the hairst rig.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Kempn.6

Brit. /kɛmp/, U.S. /kɛmp/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Kemp.
Etymology: < the name of Richard M. Kemp, U.S. fisherman, who sent the first specimen of the species to S. W. Garman, who gave it its Latin name, scientific Latin Thalassochelys kempii (S. W. Garman 1880, in Bull. Mus. Compar. Zoöl. at Harvard Coll. 6 123).
Used in the genitive to designate the smallest of the sea turtles, Lepidochelys kempii, which is found chiefly in the West Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico but is now critically endangered. Now chiefly as Kemp's ridley, Kemp's ridley turtle. Also called Atlantic ridley.Formerly thought to be a hybrid of the loggerhead ( Caretta caretta) with another species, hence the earlier name of bastard turtle.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun]
angel1880
Kemp1880
1880 S. W. Garman in Bull. Mus. Compar. Zoöl. Harvard 6 i. 124 The habitat suggests the name Colpochelys... This will give to this species the name Colpochelys Kempii, Kemp's Gulf Turtle.
1907 R. L. Ditmars Reptile Bk. i. ii. 8 (heading) Kemp's Loggerhead Turtle. Thalassochelys kempii, (Garman).
1933 Copeia No. 1. 12 Caretta kempii (Garman), Kemp's bastard-turtle.—Is often confused with the preceding species [sc. the Atlantic loggerhead].
1971 Biol. Conservation 4 78 The leather trade..has virtually wiped out the highly-endangered Kemp's Ridley, which is found only in the Gulf of Mexico.
1992 Sci. Amer. Jan. 102/1 Kemp's ridley turtles remain in Atlantic waters, and flatbacks inhabit the South Pacific, near Australia.
2008 Nature of Scotl. Summer 43/2 Only 35 Kemp's Ridleys have ever been found on British shores, with just two of them appearing in Scotland.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

kempv.

Brit. /kɛmp/, U.S. /kɛmp/, Scottish English /kɛmp/
Etymology: Middle English kempen = Middle Dutch kempen , kimpen , Low German kämpen , Old High German chemfan (Middle High German kempfen , German kämpfen ), Old Norse keppa ( < *kempa ; Swedish kämpa , Danish kæmpe ) < Old Germanic *kampjan , < kamp- : see camp n.1 and kemp n.1
Scottish and northern dialect.
intransitive.
a. To fight or contend in battle with another.
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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle [verb (intransitive)] > offer challenge of single combat or duel > engage in single combat or duel
to deraign battlec1380
kemp?a1400
to measure swords (also one's sword) (with)a1616
duellize1624
duel1647
to come to points1762
?a1400 Morte Arth. 2634 There is no kynge undire Criste may kempe with hym one!
1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words They are called by children kemps..and are used to kemp or fight with.
b. To contend or strive in doing a piece of work; said esp. of a set of reapers striving to finish their ‘rig’ first.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > make an attempt or endeavour [verb (intransitive)] > strive or struggle > strive to make one's way against natural force
strivea1300
kemp1513
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest [verb (intransitive)] > reap or mow
reapeOE
mowlOE
sheara1325
kemp1513
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. x. 20 We..kempand with airis in all our mane, Wp welteris watter of the salt se flude.
1794 Har'st Rig lxii. 22 This sets the lave a-working fast; They kemp at length.
1817 Lintoun Green in R. Brown Comic Poems 95 [She] could..kemp wi' Kate, or Wull, On harvest day.
a1881 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Mem. (1883) II. 192 His reapers had taken to ‘kemp’ and spoiled him much stuff.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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