单词 | machecoling |
释义 | † machecolingn. Architecture (chiefly Scottish). Obsolete. = machicolation n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [noun] > machicolation machecolinga1460 machicolation1773 machicoulis1793 a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) 2285 For firing of the yatis make obstacle... A portcolys to plumpe adoun... The machcoling may thenne Chastise hem that thei shal nat sle ner brenne. 1471 in Rep. MSS D. Milne Home (1902) 182 Ipsam turrim..muris et fossis cum le barmking et machcoling fortificandi. 1500 in Coll. for Hist. Aberdeen & Banff (1843) 318 With power to mak thairapon irne yettis, machicolin [etc.]. 1508 in M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1908) I. 253 With battelling, machcoling and all uther manner of defens and munitioun. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1460 |
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