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单词 lockchester
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lockchestern.

Brit. /ˈlɒktʃɛstə/, U.S. /ˈlɑkˌtʃɛstər/
Forms: Middle English lokechestre, late Middle English locchester, late Middle English locchestre, late Middle English lochester, late Middle English lukchester, 1600s lockcheser, 1800s– lockchester.
Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: lockchest n.1, -er suffix1.
Etymology: Probably < lockchest n.1 (although this is first attested later) + -er suffix1.
Now historical and rare (English regional (Oxfordshire) in later use).
A woodlouse. Cf. lugdor n.
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a1400 MS Corpus Cambr. 388 in D. A. Trotter Multilingualism in Later Medieval Brit. (2000) 140 Accipe viperam anglice ‘lokechestre’ qui cum multis pedibus vadit.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 310 Locchester, wyrm.
?a1475 Promptorium Parvulorum (Winch.) (1908) 272 (MED) Lukchester, worm, supra in lochester.
?a1500 in J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words (1852) 769 (MED) For the stone, take socchetres [read locchestres], that is, a worme with many feete that ben under stones on walles, that wollen whan they be touchid make hemself rounde.
1694 W. Atkins Disc. Gout 121 Take of those things commonly called Hog-Lice, or as some call, Lock-chesers, because they role round up in your Hand.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II. at Lockchest A gardener in his employ [in Oxfordshire] used to call the wood-louse lockchester.
1857 T. Wright On Hist. Eng. Lang. 17 My friend, Mr. Halliwell, walking in a garden in Oxfordshire, accidentally overheard the gardener talking about lockchesters, and immediately asking him what these were, received for answer that they were woodlice.
1904 A. S. Palmer Folk & their Word-lore iii. 53 This old word, long survived in Oxfordshire in the form of lockchester and lockchest, as a dialect name of the wood-louse.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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