单词 | pritchel |
释义 | pritcheln. 1. Any of various sharp-pointed instruments or tools for prodding, cutting, making holes, etc. Now chiefly English regional. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] piercer1421 pritchel?a1500 piercel1747 pritch1795 ?a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 605/20 (MED) Promotorium, anglice a prychel. 1680 Torry Coal & Salt Wks. (Edinb. Reg. House) f. 81 For 3 pund of steell laid on the pritchellis at 6 s. 6 d. the pund. 1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 337 The orifice [in wire-drawing plate] is..brought to the proper size by the introduction of what the workman calls a pritchel, or long taper needle. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Pritchel, an iron share fixed on a thick staff for making holes in the ground. Kent. 1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester 118 Pritchel, [a] goad. 1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia Pritchel, a kind of hard chisel for millstones. c1900 Price List of Millstone Tools Pritchels and Chisels for cutting Burrs, letting in driving irons, etc. 1957 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex. Dial. 99/2 Pritchell, a small iron bar for use with a hammer in excavation, well-digging, etc. 1975 in W. Viereck Lexikalische Ergebnisse d. Lowman-Survey I. iv. 128 What do you drive horses and oxen with to lash them with?..pritchel. 1988 J. Lavers Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 65 Pritchel, a small hedge stake. ‘That wold Granny Birt had pulled every pritchel out of my ether hedge.’ 2. Farriery. A pointed tool used for punching or enlarging the nail holes in horseshoes. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > shoeing of horses > [noun] > shoeing instruments butter1370 firing iron1374 butteris1559 pritchel1568 fuller1587 drawing knife1610 draw knife1711 rennet1725 searcher1834 sate1883 buffer1902 1568 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1993) (modernized text) VIII. 215 To Richard..1 prichell, a stemp, [etc.]. 1587 in M. A. Havinden Househ. & Farm Inventories Oxfordshire (1965) 244 A setting punche a horseshoe prichell and a stempe. 1801 Whole Proc. King's Comm. Peace (City of London & County of Middlesex) 198/1 I found a bag, containing forty-nine new horse-shoes;..Alcorn shewed Nuttman a tool called a pritchell, which Nuttman said belonged to him. 1820 B. Clark Descr. New Horse Shoe 14 Nor was there so much trouble in reducing them [sc. the pritchel bumps on the outside of the shoe]..with the pritchel remaining in the hole to prevent its closing. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1804/1 Pritchel, the punch employed by horse-shoers for punching out or enlarging the nail-holes in a horse-shoe. 1896 Farriers' Price List A Smith can easily, with his stamp and pritchel, make a hole. 1925 R. W. Selvidge & J. M. Allton Blacksmithing 117 Place the pritchel in the nail hole on the right side and carry the shoe to the horse's foot. 1949 K. S. Woods Rural Crafts of Eng. ii. ii. 28 (caption) Pritchell and buffer used in horseshoeing. 1996 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 23 Sept. b1 His arsenal of tools includes a pritchel, designed to punch holes in the horse's shoes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pritchelv. English regional (Worcestershire and Gloucestershire). transitive. To goad (an animal). ΚΠ 1875 A. Porson Notes Quaint Words Dial. S. Worcs. 27 ‘Why do you ride your donkey with a cobbler's awl instead of a whip?’ ‘Why, sir, I'll be dall'd if he didn't fall down with me, and I'd like to have bin in the river however, so I be obliged to prichell him a bit.’ 1884 R. Lawson Upton-on-Severn Words & Phrases 27 Pritchell, to goad or prick. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1500v.1875 |
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