单词 | markal pin |
释义 | > as lemmasmarkal pin In the type of single-stilted wooden plough formerly used in Orkney and Shetland: a triangular piece of timber inserted into the lower end of the beam, carrying the ploughshare; the head of such a plough. Also markal pin. ΚΠ 1793 P. Barclay in J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. VII. 585 A square hole is cut through the lower end of the beam, and the mercal, a piece of oak about 22 inches long, introduced. 1821 W. Scott Pirate II. v. 104 What manners are to be expected in a country where folk call a pleugh-sock a markal? 1903 G. Marwick Old Rom. Plough (1936) 8 This sewchar soc or digger is fastened on a piece of wood of triangular shape called the markal pin. 1932 A. Horsbøl tr. J. Jakobsen Etymol. Dict. Norn Lang. in Shetland II Merkol, Merkal, on the old Shetl. wooden plough.., the piece of wood to which the ploughshare..is (was) fixed. 1978 A. Fenton Northern Isles xxxviii. 304 Merkie pin, Markal pin, Mercal, a wooden pin mortised into the plough head to hold the sock. 1978 A. Fenton Northern Isles xxxviii. 309 In Shetland the mercal was a piece of oak... The end of the..ground wrest was also fixed to the mercal... The ground-wrest, in effect, formed an arm of the markal pin. < as lemmas |
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