单词 | palmery |
释义 | † palmeryn.1 Obsolete. rare. = palmer n.2 ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > ferule or flat piece of wood palmeryc1300 palmera1387 ferule-rod1528 ferule1559 ferula1579 ferular1594 paddle1828 spatula1830 c1300 St. Edmund Rich (Harl.) 211 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 499 A pameri [c1300 Laud paumerie] he brouȝte on his hond, gret & strong ynouȝ; Seint Edmund he nom bi þe hond & his pameri drouȝ. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2020). palmeryn.2 A collection of palm trees; a place in which palm trees are grown, a palm house. ΚΠ 1871 J. Seaton William Winston Seaton 330 The great palmery, a crystal house sixty feet high, with exotic trees from all parts of the world. 1890 Cent. Dict. 4248 Palmery, a palm-house. 1931 Geogr. Jrnl. 77 17 The spring was a green shallow waterhole a yard or so in diameter in the palmery. 1997 T. Mackintosh-Smith Yemen (1999) viii. 227 We passed the great palmeries of al-Qa'r, then re-entered scrub and dune country. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1c1300n.21871 |
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