单词 | lopper |
释义 | loppern.1 One who lops (a tree). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > pruning or lopping > pruner shraggerc1440 twister1483 lopper1538 snedder1584 pruner1586 shredder1589 primer1611 topper1688 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Frondator,..a brouser, a wodlopper [1545 wode lopper]. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Lopper, or shragger, arborator, frondator. 1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) (at cited word) Hence lopper on the hautie hill, shall sing with voyce on highe. 1613 T. Jackson Eternall Truth Script. i. xxi. §1 A great oak..spoiled of boughs by the lopper's axe. 1755 in S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. 1883 Leisure Hour 505/1 Beeches unscathed by topper and lopper. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). loppern.2 A curdled or coagulated state or condition (of blood or milk). Also, partly-melted snow, ‘slush’. ΚΠ 1835 J. Hogg Tales Wars Montrose II. 130 The country became waist~deep of lapper or half-melted snow. 1880 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) at Lapper The milk's into a lapper. 1895 S. R. Crockett Men of Moss-hags ii The ground about was all a-lapper with blood. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lopperadj. Obsolete exc. Scottish. = loppered adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [adjective] > relating to milk > curd > coagulated welledOE loppereda1300 quailed1440 runned1527 lopper1816 run1859 walled1879 clabbered1921 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 459 Whar he had na other fode Bot wlatsom glet, and loper blode. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. x. 229 Lapper-milk. 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Lopper Milk (Husband.), old milk turned to curds. a1894 J. Shaw Dumfr. Dial. in Wallace Country Schoolmaster (1894) 350 Loper snow, snow in a state of slush. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lopperv. Now only Scottish and northern dialect. 1. a. intransitive. Of milk: To curdle. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [verb (intransitive)] > curdle or become curdled runeOE loppera1300 curda1398 to run togethera1398 quaila1425 trout1483 lop1570 turn1577 quar1578 curdle1586 caille1601 to set together1608 set1736 whig1756 shill1876 clabber1880 a1300 [implied in: Early Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter cxviii. 70 Lopred als milk es hert of þa. (at loppered adj.)]. a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cxviii. 70 As mylk in þe kynd is fayre and clere, bot in lopirynge it waxis soure. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) vii. 27 Take a drope of bawme..and putte þerto gayte mylke; and, if þe balme be gude, alsone þe mylke sall leper. 1812 P. Forbes Poems 34 (E.D.D.) A muckle plate That ha'ds our milk to lapper. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Lopper, to turn sour and coagulate by too long standing. b. transitive. To turn to curds; to curdle. ΚΠ 1882 G. MacDonald Castle Warlock 13 Drinkin' soor milk—eneuch to lapper a' i' the inside o' 'im! 2. ‘To dabble, to besmear, or to cover so as to clot’ (Jamieson). ΚΠ 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. iii. 73 Sic grewsome wishes, that men should be slaughtered like sheep—and that they may lapper their hands to the elbows in their heart's bluid. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11538n.21835adj.1340v.a1300 |
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