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单词 purse-carver
释义

purse-carvern.

Forms: see purse n. and carver n.1; also Middle English purskevere (perhaps transmission error).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: purse n., carver n.1
Etymology: < purse n. + carver n.1Earliest attested as a surname.
Obsolete.
= purse-cutter n.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > pickpocket or cutpurse > [noun] > cut-purse
cutpurse1362
purse-carverc1380
purse-cuttera1500
knight of the knife1631
tear-placketa1640
c1380 in D. D. Pilkington Eng. Compound Nouns (M.A. thesis, Univ. of London) (1920) 29 Purskervare, Arnald le.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1882) VIII. 181 (MED) A purskevere [v.rr. purskerver, purskervere; L. bursarum incisor] in kuttinge of purses werþ i-cliȝt in his hondes.
?c1430 (?1383) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 320 (MED) Þe proude worldly preste of Rome and alle his fautours ben most cursed of clipperis and purse-kerveris.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 417 Purskeruare, bursida.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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