单词 | pook |
释义 | pookn. Chiefly English regional (southern and south-western). A heap, spec. (a) a haycock; a roughly assembled heap of hay, oats, barley, or other unsheafed produce, not more than 5 feet high, pitched together for carting to a rick; (b) a tall stack of corn, wheat, etc., in the sheaf, in the form of a steep cone 9 or 10 feet high, built up temporarily in the harvest field to dry grain before it is carried to the main rick. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > stooking > stook or cock shockc1325 cocka1398 stook14.. poukera1450 haycockc1470 cop1512 stitch1603 pook1607 grass cock1614 hattock1673 stuckle1682 cocklet1788 coil?a1800 lap-cock1802 shuck1811 button1850 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > stooking > stook or cock > stack or rick in field pike1565 pook1607 wind-cock1610 pout1686 wind-mow1811 peak1953 1607 T. Ridley View Civile & Eccl. Law 148 Another Tythes it [sc. the corn for the Church] in Cocks or Pookes. 1718 T. Hearne Reliquiae Hearnianae (1857) I. 410 [The farmer and his men] went up into the common fields..to fetch home two loads of oats, and the land not being yet in cocks or pooks [etc.]. 1766 Compl. Farmer at Harvest In their wheat-pooks..in Wiltshire, the sheaves are set in a circle, with their ears uppermost, and another circle of sheaves is placed upon that, and so on, contracting each round, till the pile ends in a point, upon which a sheaf opened, and turned with the ears downward, is placed, like the shackle of a hive... A load, or two loads, may be thus put into a pook, which is a very good way to secure corn against rain. 1829 J. L. Knapp Jrnl. Naturalist 28 Saving our crops in bad and catching seasons, by securing the hay in windcocks, and wheat in pooks. a1863 J. T. Tregellas Cornish Tales (1868) 20 O'er shoading-heaps and pooks of turves. 1938 L. MacNeice Earth Compels 25 The piles of peat and pooks of hay. 2003 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 20 Aug. 10 Reader Gerry Symons well recalls when it took three men to harvest a field—and sheaves were still stooked in pooks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pookv.1 Chiefly English regional (southern and south-western). transitive. To heap up; spec. to put up (hay, wheat, corn, etc.) into cocks or pooks; †to gather in (a crop, etc.) for this purpose (obsolete rare). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest (a crop) [verb (transitive)] > make into stooks cock1392 shockc1440 stookc1575 cop1581 pook1587 recock1610 pout1617 stitch1669 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > gather in one mass or form lumps > accumulate heapc1000 tassea1400 aggregate?a1425 grossc1440 amass1481 accumulatec1487 accumule1490 exaggerate1533 cumulate1534 compile1578 pook1587 mass1604 hilla1618 congeriate1628 agglomerate1751 pile1827 to roll up1848 1587 J. Higgins Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) Bladud xv Beneath on earth pompe, pelfe and prayse they pooke. a1600 in Notes & Queries 3rd Ser. 7 277/1 The tenant to cut down, sheafe, pooke, and rake the said thirdes and tenths [of wheat and barley]. 1718 T. Hearne Reliquiae Hearnianae (1857) I. 410 The master and the other servant were pooking in part of the land. 1811 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. (new ed.) 265 Barley and oats are always pooked or cocked, seldom carried from the swath... Hay..[is] pooked, cocked, first in foot-cocks, and when dry in hay-cocks. 1897 F. T. Jane Lordship Passen & We 41 I was pooking hay in the Park that morning. 1901 Times 19 Aug. 11/1 Experience shows..that where barley is pooked, as it often is in the south, it takes less harm from heavy rain and dries much sooner than where it is sheafed. 1989 Manch. Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 19 Nov. 23 I used to spend much time ‘pooking’ straw or hay with a two-grained (two-tined) prong (fork). DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > stooking > one who cocker1392 stookera1642 shocker1827 pooker1893 1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. Pooker, a woman employed in pooking. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pookv.2 Scottish and Irish English (northern). transitive. To pluck, pinch, pick, or pull at with the thumb and finger. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull > suddenly or sharply twickeOE plitchOE to-twitchc1175 twitchc1330 tricec1386 tita1400 pluckc1400 ramp1567 snatch1590 pook1633 squitch1680 twig1755 shrug1807 yank1848 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > by plucking pluckOE pook1633 1633 Orkney Witch Trial in J. Maidment Misc. Abbotsford Club 154 The said Catrein cam in to the said Barbarayis house to puik sum bair. 1724 A. Ramsay Poetick Serm. in Health (new ed.) 43 She pukes her pens, and aims a Flight Throu' Regions of internal Light. 1787 R. Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook xiv, in Poems (new ed.) 60 The weans haud out their fingers laughin, And pouk my hips. 1810 A. Cunningham et al. Remains Nithsdale & Galloway Song 74 I'll clip, quo' she, yere lang gray wing, An' pouk yere rosie kame. 1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders 274 Your leddyship will hae to come and pook the chucky. 1925 E. C. Smith Mang Howes 9 Pookin ‘cheese-an-breed’ aff o the hedges ti nattle at. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 259/1 Pook, pull, tug, specifically tug at (a person's clothes) to draw his or her attention. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1607v.11587v.21633 |
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