单词 | bastable |
释义 | bastablen. Now chiefly historical. I. Compounds. 1. attributive. Especially in Ireland: designating an earthenware or (in later use) cast-iron pot with three short legs and a lid, used for baking over a fire; esp. in bastable oven, bastable pot.Cf. Barnstaple oven n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > pot with legs or feet posnetc1350 yetling1354 skillet1403 skill1600 Barnstaple oven1716 bastable oven1748 goashore1834 bastable1836 kaffir pot1863 kohua1901 potjie1985 1748 L. Pilkington Mem. II. 171 I had ordered a Custard to be made for him, and, having a bastable Oven [1749 (new ed.) barnstable Oven], it was put into it to bake. 1845 M. F. Dickson Scenes on Shores of Atlantic II. viii. 341 How pleased she looked when we..admired the nice loaf just fresh out of the little bastable oven. 1946 Times Pict. (Dublin) 29 June 7/3 A few turf embers on the top—just as people do in the country with a bastable oven, will allow you to cook without turning. 2012 F. Delaney Last Storyteller lxxi. 178 He refurbished the fire, and heaped its new embers on the lid of the bastible pot. II. Simple uses. 2. Especially in Ireland: an earthenware or (in later use) cast-iron pot with three short legs and a lid, used for baking over a fire.Cf. pot-oven n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > pot with legs or feet posnetc1350 yetling1354 skillet1403 skill1600 Barnstaple oven1716 bastable oven1748 goashore1834 bastable1836 kaffir pot1863 kohua1901 potjie1985 1836 Leicester Chron. 13 Aug. I said roast and boiled was all the same to me..in bastables, ovens, pots, [etc]. 1942 E. Cross Tailor & Ansty xvi. 149 The Tailor, who does most of the cooking, will make ‘a potash’ of it in the bastable. 2006 C. Kinmonth Irish Rural Interiors in Art i. 25/1 A second three-legged pot and iron bastable for baking bread..are stored under the stairs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1748 |
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