单词 | pair of tongs |
释义 | > as lemmaspair of tongs b. in plural form with plural construction: the usual current use. pair of tongs is used when qualification by a numeral or an indefinite article is wanted. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > tongs or pincers tongsc725 tongsc890 pinsons1356 turkis1390 pincersa1400 twitches?a1425 pinching iron1519 pincette?1533 spinsers1539 pincher1573 twitcher1573 tenailles1597 quitch1600 tenalia1603 forceps1634 vellicle1676 snapdragon1833 α. β. c1290 St. Brendan 480 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 233 With tongen [Harl. MS. 2277 (c 1300) tangen] and with hameres brenninde mani on.1352–3 in F. R. Chapman Sacrist Rolls Ely (1907) II. 155 In j pari de Tongys pro plumbario.1392–3 Earl Derby's Exp. (Camden) 158 Pro tunges et aliis necessariis.1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 16144 And with thy Toonges pynche hem so.1483 Act 1 Rich. III c. 12 §2 Andyrons, Cobbardes, Tongges, Fireforkes.1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 205 Tongges of yron..j payre.1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 251/1 Payre of tonges, tenailles.1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 251/1 Payre of smythes tonges, gresses.1531 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 37 A payre of andi[r]onis and a payre of tonkes with a fyer Raike.1582 Rates Custome House (new ed.) sig. Eviij v Tongs for fire the dosen vj.s.1599 Acct.-bk. W. Wray in Antiquary (1896) 32 243 One pair of thounges.1605 S. Rowlands Hell's broke Loose 47 Their flesh torne from the bones with fiery tongs.1614 in Liber Deposit. infra Archidiacon. Colcestrensem (MS) lf. 71 To saye he would laye her on the pate with the tungs.1663 S. Pepys Diary 7 Sept. (1971) IV. 301 Dogs, tongs, and Shovells for my wife's closet.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 130 With Tongs they turn the Steel. View more context for this quotation1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 383 You found it where the Highland Man found the Tongs.1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 171 Grasping the tongs with the right hand a little below the middle.1845 G. P. R. James Arrah Neil I. ii. 19 He was as thin and spare, too, as a pair of tongs.c890 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) v. xiii. [xii.] 428 Hæfdon heo fyrene eagan..ond fyrene tangan him on handa hæfdon. c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 352 Woldon me gelæccan mid heora byrnendum tangum. c1290Tangen [see β. ]. 1384–5 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 265 j par de tangs. 1412–13 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 610 1 pare belowys et tangys empt. c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 657/11 Hec forceps, tangges. 1483 Cath. Angl. 378/1 A paire of Tanges, jn plurali numero, tenalia. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 237 The wyff..That with the taingis wald braek his schinnis. 1547 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 20 (note) Tua pair of tayngis. 1595 A. Duncan Appendix Etymologiae: Index in Latinae Grammaticae Forceps, tayngs. 1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green iii. 24 Her Aunt a Pair of Tangs fush in. 1816 J. Boswell Justiciary Opera 5 To seize on anither man's geer (As the tangs ance a Highlandman fand). 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Tangs ‘You fand that whar the Highlandman fand the tangs’. < as lemmas |
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