noustn.

Brit.

/naʊst/, U.S.

/naʊst/, Scottish English

/nʌʊst/,

/nust/

Forms: pre-1700 newst, pre-1700 1900s– nowst, 1800s naust, 1800s– noost (Shetland), 1800s– noust, 1900s– noast (Caithness), 1900s– nust (Shetland), 1900s– oast (Caithness).

Origin: Probably a borrowing from Norn.

Etymology: Probably < the unattested Norn reflex of the early Scandinavian word represented by Old Icelandic naust , Faroese neyst , Norwegian naust , Norwegian (Bokmål) (archaic) nøst , Danish nøst , all in sense ‘boat-shed’ < the Scandinavian base of Old Icelandic nór ship (see nave n.²) + the Scandinavian base of Old Icelandic -st , suffix denoting a place where something stands (probably related to the Germanic base of stand v.).The Caithness form oast shows metanalysis (see N n.). The pronunciation /nɔust/ is used in Orkney, /nust/ in Shetland, and /(n)ost/ in Caithness.

Scottish (chiefly Orkney and Shetland).

A place where a boat can be hauled up and kept ashore; spec. a scooped-out trench at the edge of a beach surrounded by a shallow wall of stones. Also boat-noust.In quot. 1894 figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > grounding of vessel > [noun] > deliberately > place for

noust1613

1613 in R. S. Barclay Court Bk. Orkney & Shetland (1962) 76 The saidis boitismen ressavit the boitis pairt and returnit the said boit to the nowst out of the quhilk schoe wes tane.

1687 T. Brown Diary 31 Oct. (1898) 48 William Ewinsone..found her lying..beneath the boat nowst in Wytfoord.

1690 T. Brown Diary 8 Dec. (1898) 63 Ther wes a great boat blowen owt of the Newst at the Air.

1869 J. T. Reid Art Rambles 41 Down to the boat-noust the trio hirpled.

1894 L. J. Nicolson Songs of Thule 79 My fecht is owre wi' wind an' wave Da Noost is noo da quiet grave.

1922 Glasgow Herald 22 July 86 In the afternoon at ebb tide they went down to take the boats out of the ‘nousts’.

1931 J. Nicolson Tales 55 When a boat was taken from its ‘noost’, and put into the water, the bow had to be turned ‘sun-gaets’.

1971 G. M. Brown Fishermen with Ploughs 69 He coughed his way to the noust And launched the Belle.

1993 Beaver Oct. 6/1 [Orkney] There was the noust for hauling up the boat; there was the sailhouse for drying their sails and housing the boat's gear.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	noust
释义	noustn. Brit. /naʊst/, U.S. /naʊst/, Scottish English /nʌʊst/, /nust/ Forms: pre-1700 newst, pre-1700 1900s– nowst, 1800s naust, 1800s– noost (Shetland), 1800s– noust, 1900s– noast (Caithness), 1900s– nust (Shetland), 1900s– oast (Caithness). Origin: Probably a borrowing from Norn. Etymology: Probably < the unattested Norn reflex of the early Scandinavian word represented by Old Icelandic naust , Faroese neyst , Norwegian naust , Norwegian (Bokmål) (archaic) nøst , Danish nøst , all in sense ‘boat-shed’ < the Scandinavian base of Old Icelandic nór ship (see nave n.²) + the Scandinavian base of Old Icelandic -st , suffix denoting a place where something stands (probably related to the Germanic base of stand v.).The Caithness form oast shows metanalysis (see N n.). The pronunciation /nɔust/ is used in Orkney, /nust/ in Shetland, and /(n)ost/ in Caithness. Scottish (chiefly Orkney and Shetland). A place where a boat can be hauled up and kept ashore; spec. a scooped-out trench at the edge of a beach surrounded by a shallow wall of stones. Also boat-noust.In quot. 1894 figurative. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > grounding of vessel > [noun] > deliberately > place for noust1613 1613 in R. S. Barclay Court Bk. Orkney & Shetland (1962) 76 The saidis boitismen ressavit the boitis pairt and returnit the said boit to the nowst out of the quhilk schoe wes tane. 1687 T. Brown Diary 31 Oct. (1898) 48 William Ewinsone..found her lying..beneath the boat nowst in Wytfoord. 1690 T. Brown Diary 8 Dec. (1898) 63 Ther wes a great boat blowen owt of the Newst at the Air. 1869 J. T. Reid Art Rambles 41 Down to the boat-noust the trio hirpled. 1894 L. J. Nicolson Songs of Thule 79 My fecht is owre wi' wind an' wave Da Noost is noo da quiet grave. 1922 Glasgow Herald 22 July 86 In the afternoon at ebb tide they went down to take the boats out of the ‘nousts’. 1931 J. Nicolson Tales 55 When a boat was taken from its ‘noost’, and put into the water, the bow had to be turned ‘sun-gaets’. 1971 G. M. Brown Fishermen with Ploughs 69 He coughed his way to the noust And launched the Belle. 1993 Beaver Oct. 6/1 [Orkney] There was the noust for hauling up the boat; there was the sailhouse for drying their sails and housing the boat's gear. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1613
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