单词 | lime-kiln |
释义 | lime-kilnn. a. A kiln in which lime is made by calcining limestone. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > kiln > [noun] > lime-kilns lime-kiln1296 lime-pot1596 pot kiln1599 flame-kiln1808 tunnel-kiln1828 1296 in W. H. D. Longstaffe & J. Booth Halmota Prioratus Dunelmensis (1889) 6 Septem acras terræ apud limkilne. 1355–6 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 557 Et in 1 Lymkilne comburend. apud Pytingdon, 14s. 6d. 1509 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 112 Ye hygheway from ye lyme kylle. 1580 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Dial. Yron in Ioyfull Newes (new ed.) f. 145 Put them into an Ouen, lyke to a lyme keele. 1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor iii. iii. 74 As hatefull to me As the reake of a lime kill. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 314 Wormes..which are wont to doe much hurt to Fornaces and Limbekills where they make Limbe. 1692 London Gaz. No. 2828/2 They destroyed their famous Lime Kill. a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 82 Resembling those places in England where there have been anciently Lime-kilns. 1859 A. Cary Pictures Country Life 16 A pile of dry stones that had once been a lime-kiln. 1892 H. Nisbet Bushranger's Sweetheart xviii. 136 ‘That infernal “swanky” has left me as dry as a lime-kiln’, cried out my companion. b. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. i. A5 Now the rotten diseases of the south... Sciaticaes lime-kills ith' palme,..take and take againe such preposterous discoueries. View more context for this quotation 1845 E. B. Barrett Let. 21 Nov. in Lett. R. Browning & E. B. Barrett (1899) I. 289 The great Law lime-kiln dries human souls all to one colour. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1296 |
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