单词 | lime-pot |
释义 | lime-potn. A pot to contain lime or birdlime; a vessel of lime to pour upon assailants in a fight (Historical); †a pot or furnace in which limestone is burnt; a lime-wash pot. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > fire, radiation, or chemical weapons > [noun] > lime-pot or tar-barrel lime-pot14.. tar-barrelc1450 society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > kiln > [noun] > lime-kilns lime-kiln1296 lime-pot1596 pot kiln1599 flame-kiln1808 tunnel-kiln1828 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 703/5 Hoc viscerium, a lyme-pott. 1483 Cath. Angl. 217/1 A Lyme pott or brusche, viscarium, viminarium. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 33 Boitis man, bayr stanis & lyme pottis ful of lyme in the craklene pokis to the top. 1596 Reg. Mag. Sig. (1890) 160/1 Vastam caudam terre cum lie vorkhousis et lymepottis ad australem partem. 1692 in Rec. Convent. R. Burghs (1880) IV. 571 Item, a years rent of lim potts and grass at the east port 3 8 8. 1860 J. Hewitt Anc. Armour III. 489 Both fire-pots and lime-pots were employed at the siege of Harfleur in 1415. 1860 Ecclesiologist 21 218 A man armed with a fire-pot, or lime-pot. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.14.. |
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