单词 | malling |
释义 | Mallingn.1 I. Compounds. 1. Designating rootstocks for fruit trees, varieties of fruit, etc., developed at the East Malling Research Station in south-east England. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > cultivated or valued > [adjective] > of or relating to fruit-trees and parts soura1000 saffron-fruited1558 pomonal1841 Malling1927 1927 Gardeners' Chron. 19 Mar. 199/2 There is a very strong demand amongst market growers for dessert Apples on Jaune de Metz (Type IX), the most dwarfing of the Malling selections. 1936 H. V. Taylor Apples Eng. p. iii (advt.) Selected trees on Malling stocks. 2. Designating a type of English stoneware of the late 16th cent., esp. in the form of tin-enamelled jugs, one of which was found at West Malling in Kent. Also applied more widely to contemporaneous ware of a similar style made in Dutch and German centres. Cf. tiger-ware n. at tiger n. Compounds 2a. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [adjective] > types of English pottery Liverpool1750 Wedgwood1787 Mason1804 Plymouth1816 Rockingham1840 Leeds1863 Jackfield1866 Spode1869 Whieldon1869 Minton1871 Doulton1873 Toft1878 Lambeth1884 Wrotham1884 metropolitan1891 Astbury1904 Pratt1920 Malling1933 1903 Times 11 Feb. 10/6 The West Malling Elizabethan jug..will be sold [on]..February 19th.] 1933 W. B. Honey Eng. Pottery & Porcelain iii. 36 A ‘Malling jug’ of 1550..was sold for five hundred and sixty guineas. 1968 A. Ray Eng. Delftware Pottery xi. 91 The 16th century ‘Malling’ jugs are the earliest tin-glazed pottery. ?1996 Leaflet 1 (Victoria & Albert Mus. Silver Galleries) Case 8. 14 Beer Pot. Tin-glazed earthenware, Dutch or German, English silver-gilt mounts... Unmarked, around 1600... The brilliant blue ceramic is known as Malling ware. II. Simple uses. 3. A Malling rootstock, variety, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > cultivated or valued > [noun] > fruit-tree > part(s) of wood-branch1706 breastwood1797 fruit-spur1823 Malling1966 1928 A. H. Hoare Eng. Grass Orchard v. 73 It is good news for orchard planters that it has been found possible to select and propagate by layering the most desirable of the seedling crabs and the very vigorous types of ‘Paradise’ stocks, as they are called. These are known as Malling Types XII., XIII. and XVI., and Bristol No. 5... They are not yet plentiful. 1956 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) Suppl. 117/2 Malling Exploit. Early. Large, conical, bright-red, firm... An outstanding variety [of raspberry]. 1966 A. G. Brown in Fruit Present & Future (Royal Hort. Soc.) 18 East Malling has continued to work with rootstocks and has recently introduced a new dwarfing stock Malling 26. 1973 Times 16 Oct. 6/6 Britain's plant breeders..are striving to keep their brand names in Europe. To our grain growers Maris means another winner from the Plant Breeding Institute at Cambridge, Pentland a good Scottish potato, and Malling an outstanding new fruit. 1991 Smallholder (BNC) Oct. 34 Rootstocks range from dwarf or semi-dwarf malling (M27) giving a tree 4ft high to M111 which is a large old fashioned tree for paddock or orchard. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mallingn.2 U.S. 1. The process or result of the extensive building of large, self-contained shopping centres. Also in extended use. ΚΠ 1978 W. S. Kowinski in New Times (N.Y.) 1 May 34/1 Almost imperceptibly, the culture of the highway has coalesced in these climate-controlled bubbles... The malling of America is happening now. 1988 Nation (N.Y.) 4 June 804/2 Indeed, that is pretty much how things stand now, and the anticipated malling of midtown into a sleaze-free cordon sanitaire can only accelerate the process. 1994 N.Y. Times 2 Jan. iv. 5/3 Some of the net purists would characterise the evolution [of electronic shopping] as the malling of cyberspace. 2. Visiting a shopping centre, frequently as a purely social activity. ΚΠ 1988 Time 12 Dec. 90/3 He and Abra don't go malling much these days, but they are still an item. 1989 State (Columbia, S. Carolina) 12 Aug. 1- b1 (heading) Bored, cruising and ‘malling’... Legions of teenagers..hanging out inside the malls...But this ‘malling’ of Columbia also has caused a gigantic headache for law enforcement officials, mall managers, customers, and store managers. 1992 S. King Gerald's Game (1993) x. 144 Jessie still found herself with a scary amount of time on her hands—time to garden, time to go malling, time to take classes. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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