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单词 mollet
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molletn.

Forms: pre-1700 molat, pre-1700 molet, pre-1700 mollet, pre-1700 mollett, pre-1700 mowet, pre-1700 1800s mollat (in dictionaries).
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a borrowing from French. Etymon: French molete.
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < Middle French molete spur-rowel, star-shaped ornament (see mullet n.3), though the specific sense ‘bit’ appears not to be attested in Middle French. Compare earlier molan n., and later mullen n.
Scottish. Obsolete.
A studded or toothed bit for a horse. Also mollet bit.
ΚΠ
1503 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 396 And for mollat bit, small bittis [etc.].
1505 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1901) III. 135 Item, for ane gret mollet bit to the King, xiiij s.
?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 50 Thar myght na molet mak me moy na hald my mouth in.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vii. iv. 196 Thar harnessing of gold rycht deirly dicht; Thai runge the goldin mollettis burnyst bright.
1561 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1916) XI. 65 xij mollat bittis to the saidis hors.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

molletv.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mollet n.
Etymology: < mollet n. Compare quot. ?1507 at mollet n.
Scottish. Obsolete.
intransitive. Perhaps: to ride using a curb; to ride slowly.Apparently an isolated use.
ΚΠ
1559 D. Lindsay Complaynt 333 in Wks. (1931) I. 49 Bot, geue thay can play at the cairtis, And mollet moylie on ane Mule, Thocht thay had neuer sene the scule, Ȝit..Wyll be maid sic ane spirituall man.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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