单词 | poutstaff |
释义 | † poutstaffn. Scottish. Obsolete. rare. The detachable pole or staff of a pout net. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > net on pole > pole poutstaff1488 pole-shank1888 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 402 Willȝham was wa he had na wappynis thar Bot the poutstaff [1570 polt staff] the quhilk in hand he bar. 1985 Speculum 60 885 While the poutnet is found in several northern English and Scots texts of the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries, the poutstaff is so named only in Wallace.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1488 |
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