单词 | pepper-quern |
释义 | pepper-quernn. Now rare (Scottish and English regional (northern)). A pepper mill. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > grinder > for spices pepper-quernOE mustard stone1481 spice mortar1560 mustard mill1588 pepper mill1631 pepper grinder1859 spice mill1862 OE Recipe (Wellcome 75.46) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1890) 84 326 Grinde reades caules sædes ane handfulle on piporcwyrna. 1362 in J. Raine Inventories & Acct. Rolls Benedictine Houses Jarrow & Monk-Wearmouth (1854) 158 (MED) j par de peperquerens. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 393 Pepyr qwerne [v.r. pepirwherne], fractillum, molinellum piperis, in frango, fritillum, mola piperalis. 1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 275 A paire of Pepyr qwherns, fraxillus, fretellum, pistillus, pistillum. 1534 in J. Imrie et al. Burgh Court Bk. Selkirk (1960) The peper quhernes. 1564 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 223 iiij stonepotts ij pep'quernes viijd. 1588 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 328 j paire off pepper whirnes. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia at Quern A handmill; as a Pepper Quern, a Mill to grinde Pepper. 1689 Brechin Test. VII. f. 211, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Peper-(quern) A pepper quorne iij s. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Pepper-curne, a hand-mill used for grinding pepper. 1892 M. C. F. Morris Yorks. Folk-talk xi. 217 They [sc. the Danes] have the saying..‘Munden gik paa hende som en Peberkværn’ (she chattered away at a fine rate). If our good friends the Danes liken the female tongue to a pepper-quern they must surely use that article of seasoning pretty freely in some of their concoctions. 1971 Sc. National Dict. Spice-mill, a pepper-quern, -mill, -grinder. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.OE |
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