单词 | quar |
释义 | quarn.1 Now English regional (west midlands and south-western). = quarry n.2 1a.In quot. 1632 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > dead body > [noun] > pile of quar?a1475 quarry1573 carnage1667 society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > quarry > [noun] quarrera1375 quarrel1377 quarrya1382 quar?a1475 glory-hole1902 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > [noun] > mass of stone quarrya1398 quar?a1475 block1530 ?a1475 Promptorium Parvulorum (Winch.) (1908) 361 Qwarere, or qwar of stone, lapidicina. ?1530 J. Rastell Pastyme of People sig. Ciiv Stonys owte of anny quarre or rokk. 1566 T. Stapleton Returne Vntruthes Jewelles Replie iv. 61 Stedfaster than any Rocke or Quarre of what euer stone it be. 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxvi. 124 Shee Mil-stones from the Quarrs, with sharpned picks could get. 1632 B. Jonson Magn. Lady i The very Agat Of State and Politie: cut from the Quar of Macchiavel. 1672 W. S. Poems B. Johnson Junior Ep. Ded. sig. A2v Aston a Stone cut from the marble Quar. a1770 T. Chatterton Compl. Wks. (1971) I. 243 Lyke..Veynes of brown hue yn a Marble Cuar. 1777–8 R. Wight Horæ Subsecivæ (MS Bodl. Eng. lang. d.66) 347 [Gloucestershire] A Quarr vel Cuarr—pro Quarrie, Latomia. 1789 Jolly Compan. 14 The stones that built George Ridler's oven, And they came from the Blackeney's quar. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) I do work in the quar vor Mr. Russell. 1899 S. Baring-Gould Furze Bloom 96 The Quar was, in fact, an abortive attempted excavation for granite. 1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 254 The stone fresh from the ‘quarrs’ is amber. 1979 N. Rogers Wessex Dial. 85/1 Quar, a quarry. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > quarrier > [noun] quarrel man1377 quarrier1399 quarryman1442 quar-man1606 stone-getter1688 stone-drawer1703 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 71 The sturdy Quar-man with steel-headed Cones And massie Sledges slenteth out the Stones. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Quar-man, labourer in a quarry; also the proprietor or lessee of a quarry. ΚΠ a1742 J. Dutton Acct. Bk. in Garden Hist. (1995) 23 140 Removing ye Mount at my New Park and carrying it into ye Quar Pits. 1851 P. Heylin Memorial of Bishop Waynflete 38 Headington's deep Quarr-pits. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Quar-pit, a quarry, usually a small one. C2. quar-martin n. English regional (Wiltshire) rare the sand martin, Riparia riparia, which nests in holes that it excavates in sandy cliffs and banks. ΚΠ 1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 169 These birds are called by the labourers ‘quar-martins’, because they breed in holes drilled in the face of the sandy precipices of quarries. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † quarn.2 Obsolete. A square tile or pane of glass; = quarry n.3 1, 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials in specific shape or form > [noun] > square quarry1555 quar1556 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of windows > [noun] > pane > in lattice window quarrel1458 quarry1537 quar1556 1556–7 Chamberlain's Accts. in M. Bateson Rec. Borough Leicester (1905) III. 87 Reparacions..13 fote of glasse in querres and for caryage from London 5s. 5d. 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 72 What mightie Rowlers, and what massie Cars Could bring so far so many monstrous Quars [Fr. quarreaux]? 1617 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 73 Item xix quarres mendid in the other windowes. 1716 J. Laurence Gardening Improv'd 104 If it [sc. a slope] were paved with Brick, Stone or Quarrs, which is very adviseable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020). quarv.1 Now rare. 1. transitive. To choke or block up (a river or channel); (occasionally more generally) to fill up. English regional (west midlands) in later use.In quot. a1903 in passive: (of leaves, etc.) to build up so as to form a blockage. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close by obstruction or block up fordita800 forstop?c1225 estopa1420 accloy1422 ferma1522 clam1527 quar1542 cloy1548 dam1553 occlude1581 clog1586 impeach1586 bung1589 gravel1602 impediment1610 stifle1631 foul1642 obstipate1656 obturate1657 choke1669 blockade1696 to flop up1838 jama1865 to ball up1884 gunge1976 the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close by obstruction or block up > block the way or a passage forsetc900 withseta1300 stop13.. speara1325 withsperre1330 to stop one's way1338 shut1362 forbara1375 beseta1400 stopc1400 precludea1513 interclude1526 to shut up1526 forestall1528 fence1535 hedge1535 quar1542 foreclose1548 forestop1566 to flounder up1576 obstruct1578 bar1590 retrench1590 to shut the door in (also upon) (a person's) face1596 barricade1606 barricado1611 thwartc1630 blocka1644 overthwart1654 rebarricado1655 to choke up1673 blockade1696 embarrass1735 snow1816 roadblock1950 1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 9 §1 The mouth and hole channell of the saide hauen is so heaped and quarred with stones and robull of balastes of the shippes. 1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. i. 12 But as a Miller hauing ground his grist, Lets downe his flood-gates with a speedy fall, And quarring vp the passage therewithall, The waters swell in spleene. 1637 Lett. Patent 1 Dec. in 9th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1883) i. App. 281/1 The said harbour [sc. Plymouth harbour] of late yeares is much decayed and quard vp with gravell sand stones and ballast. 1897 H. Kingsford Vigornian Monologues xxi. 31 Mah yud fils as if a wuz riglar quarred hup o' farty ar fifty humbuzzes like, ar moer. a1903 H. Kingsford in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 667/2 [Worcester] When the leaves and all gets quarred up there, there can't nothin' go through it. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > body of water > channel of water > [verb (intransitive)] > be choked with silt swarve1485 quar1584 silt1799 1584–5 Act 27 Eliz. c. 20 §1 Where also the said hauen of Plymmouth..doth dayly querre and fill with the sand of the Tinne-workes and Mynes. 1883 W. W. Skeat in Weekly Mercury (Plymouth) 20 Oct. 6/2 I have little doubt that quarr, to choke up, or rather to become choked up, is a corruption..of the old word querken also quarken, to choke, stifle, suffocate. DerivativesΚΠ 1628 R. Boyle Diary in Lismore Papers (1886) II. 257 Provided..he do nothing to the preiudice of my yron worcks, or stopping or quarreing vp of the River. 1682 W. Dugdale Hist. Imbanking & Drayning 380 By reason of the quarring of the said Chanel, a great part thereof runneth from Shrewes-nest to Salters lode. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). quarv.2 Now rare (English regional (south-western) in later use). intransitive. To curdle, coagulate. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [verb (intransitive)] > curdle or become curdled runeOE loppera1300 curda1398 to run togethera1398 quaila1425 trout1483 lop1570 turn1577 quar1578 curdle1586 caille1601 to set together1608 set1736 whig1756 shill1876 clabber1880 the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > be thick enough to retain form [verb (intransitive)] > coagulate runeOE curda1382 congealc1400 clotterc1405 clodder1499 cludder1540 yearna1568 quar1578 curdle1586 clot1591 coagulate1600 clod1639 concoagulate1666 earn1670 set1736 keech1863 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lxxiv. 246 It..keepeth the mylke from quarring and crudding in the brest [Fr. il..faict que le laict nese grumelle ou cueille point; Du. ende en laet dat melck niet clouteren oft tsamen]. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Engrumecer To clot, to quar like cold blood. 1873 W. P. Williams & W. A. Jones Gloss. Somersetshire 29 Quar, to coagulate—applied to milk in the breast. 1903 W. F. Rose in Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 667/2 [Somerset] They didn' look to her, and so her milk quarried, and she went off her head. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). quarv.3 English regional (west midlands and south-western). Now rare. transitive. To quarry (stone). Also occasionally intransitive. ΚΠ 1797 J. Billingsley Gen. View Agric. Somerset (new ed.) xii. 131 Three-pence per cartload quarring the stones, and three-pence per load halling. 1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 62 Quar, to raise stone from a quarry. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) We can quar stones here 'most any size. 1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. 127 Quar, Quarr, to work as a quarryman. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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