| 单词 | line-and-plummet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasline-and-plummet a. A cord used by builders and others for taking measurements, or for making things level or straight. (Cf. plumb-line v.) line-and-plummet (attributive): rigidly methodical. ΘΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for marking out work > [noun] > plumb-line or chalk-line poundereOE righteOE line1340 plummeta1398 plumba1400 perpendicle?c1400 plumb rulec1400 levelc1440 pendant1440 plumb linea1456 levelling-rule1598 perpendicular1604 plummet levelc1850 point-brass1850 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 150 He deþ al to wylle and to þe line, and to þe reule, and to þe leade, and to þe leuele. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. xi. 135 I..lered hem liuel [v.r. leuel] and lyne, þauȝ I loke dimme. c1440 York Myst. viii. 98 To hewe þis burde I will be-gynne, But firste I wille lygge on my lyne. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxix To take a lyne and set it there as thou wylte haue thy hedge, and to make a trenche after thy lyne. 1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. i. i. f. 5 Ane biggare can nocht make ane euin vp wal without direction of his lyne. 1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. xl. 3 A man..with a line of flaxe in his hand, & a measuring reed. View more context for this quotation 1758 J. Watson Mil. Dict. (ed. 5) Cordeau, a Line divided into Fathoms, Feet, &c. to mark Out-works on the Ground, used by Engineers. 1848 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) I. 515/2 The gardener measures and marks off all his figures in the ground with his line and spade. 1849 D. M. Mulock Ogilvies (1875) xii. 89 There was a line-and-plummet regularity, an angular preciseness, in Mrs. Breynton's mind and person. 1871 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Odyssey I. v. 131 Trees then he felled..and carefully He smoothed their sides, and wrought them by a line. < as lemmas |
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