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单词 pisé
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pisén.adj.

Brit. /ˈpiːzeɪ/, /ˈpɪzeɪ/, U.S. /piˈzeɪ/
Forms: 1700s– pisé, 1900s– pise, 1900s– pisée.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pisé.
Etymology: < French pisé (1562 in Middle French as pizé; rare before 18th cent.), use as noun of past participle of piser to beat, pound (earth) < classical Latin pīsare, pīnsāre to beat, pound, stamp, intensive < pīnsere to pound < the same Indo-European base as Sanskrit pinaṣṭi, ancient Greek πτίσσειν. Compare Old Occitan pizar to crush, pound, grind (early 13th cent.; Occitan pisar), Catalan pisar to tread, pound (earth) (14th cent.), Spanish pisar to pound, mash (c1200).
A. n.
More fully pisé de terre. A building material of stiff clay or earth, sometimes mixed with gravel, forced between boards which are removed as it hardens; the method of building using this material. See also terre pisée n.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with other materials > [noun] > with clay or earth
pisé1797
mound-building1849
terre pisée1936
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > [noun] > with gravel
cob1602
pisé1797
vermin puddle1850
terre pisée1936
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > earth > [noun] > for building or constructing
back-cutting1842
wichert1912
pisé de terre1919
backfill1934
1797 H. Holland Pisé in Comm. to Board Agric. on Cottages I. App. 387 (title) Pisé is a very simple manual operation; it is merely by compressing earth in moulds or cases, that we may arrive at building houses of any size or height.
1807 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (new ed.) I. 136 Building in what is termed pisé, or simply by compressing well-wrought earth in moulds.
1852 J. Wiggins Pract. Embanking Lands 32 A wall of pisé or rammed gravel in a frame might very judiciously be adopted for 2 or 3 feet of the centre of the bank.
1919 C. Williams-Ellis Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk & Clay 28Pisé de Terre’, ‘Chalk Compost’, and ‘Cob’ are three alternative forms of construction.
1936 I. L. Idriess Cattle King xx. 183 Homesteads were of roughly gathered stone or pisé, of axe hewn slabs or sheets of bark.
1977 36 Home Handyman Projects (Austral. Home Jrnl.) 97/3 Pise de Terre—wall construction of clay or earth—a formwork is made and the earth and clay rammed in firmly.
1993 E. Harland Eco-renovation iv. 202 Its vernacular name and method of construction varied from one part of the country to another: cob, witchert, pise, and clay lump were some of the names used.
B. adj.
Consisting of, made with, or using pisé.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with other materials > [adjective]
pisé1840
1840 Cottager's Man. 30 in Libr. Useful Knowl., Husb. III Walls..formed of earth in the pisé manner.
1849 Ecclesiologist 9 217 We..think that what our correspondent calls Pisé building is common in Devonshire..and known by the name of cob-building.
1919 C. Williams-Ellis Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk & Clay ii. 74 These iron bars become so tightly jammed when surrounded by the compact pisé earth, that much labour and risk of injury to the work is incurred in extricating them.
1965 Austral. Encycl. III. 327 Another interesting example of pisé building was the old Forbes, N.S.W., police barracks.
1994 G. Lehmann Spring Forest 131 The white Banks rose has been torn away from the pisé walls.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1797
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