单词 | mano |
释义 | manon.1 U.S. regional (Midland). The soft-shelled clam, Mya arenaria. Cf. maninose n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Myacidae fleming1603 clam1672 clamp1672 basket-shell1713 Mya1777 soft clam1800 smurlin1806 sand-clam1809 long clam1811 old maid1815 softshell clam1818 maninose1843 gaper1853 long neck1857 geoduck1881 bluenose1883 sand-gaper1887 mano1899 1899 B. W. Green Word-bk. Virginia Folk-speech 231 Maninose, Mannose. The soft clam. 1933 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 501/1 Mano is a little longer than a clam. A mano's more like a mussel. 1943 C. A. Weslager Delaware's Forgotten Folk 201 Today the word Mannose, or Manose is still used by both the Moors and Nanticokes. It is their name for the soft-shelled clam. 1958 Delaware Folklore Bull. Oct. 32/2 Mannose (soft-shelled clam, maninose). 1964 N. Neck News (Warsaw, Va.) 28 May 1/8 There are no soft shell clam rigs in the State of Virginia and no market facilities for the clams or manoes as they are called. 1970 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 501/1 Some call them mannoes,..but..soft shellfish is what it's called. Some calls 'em mannoses. 1990 J. Shields Chesapeake Bay Cookbk. (1991) i. 10/2 Bay clams come in a wide variety, but the locals keep it simple. They refer to them as either soft-shell clams (manninose or manos) or hard-shell clams. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). manon.2 A primitive stone implement of the New World, held in the hand and used to grind cereals and other foodstuffs upon another stone. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > corn-mill > hand-mill quernOE hand mill1523 quern mill1590 kibbling-mill1826 pot-quern1851 mano1901 1901 Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1899 37 The grinding-stone concordantly changes from a simple roller or crusher to a mano (or muller), and finally to a pestle, at first broad and short, but afterwards long and slender. 1911 W. K. Moorehead Stone Age N. Amer. II. xxvii. 103 The stones used on these [mortars] are flat, or oval water-worn stones and not finished, like mano stones common to the Cliff Dweller country. 1944 G. C. Vaillant Aztecs Mexico (1950) i. 35 The flat grinding-stones and mullers, still used in Mexico and called metates and manos, prove that the people relied on corn as their principal food. 1959 E. Tunis Indians 119/2 The grinding was done by rubbing the grains across it with another stone, the mano, held in the hands. 1960 C. Winick Dict. Anthropol. 342/2 Mano, a cylindrically shaped grindstone slightly tapered at both ends. It was held in the hand (whence its name handstone) and used as the upper stone in milling. 1964 A. D. Krieger in J. D. Jennings & E. Norbeck Prehist. Man in New World 32 The most important new trait, however, is that of food-grinding with stone implements: basin-shaped milling stones and manos. 1986 B. Fussell I hear Amer. Cooking i. 9 Tony's mother ground corn..between stones, the hollowed-out volcanic stone metate, and the stone in the hand, the mano. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see alsoalso refers to : mano-comb. form < n.11899n.21901 see also |
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