单词 | rantle-tree |
释义 | rantle-treen. Chiefly Scottish, English regional (northern), and Irish English. A bar of wood or iron fixed horizontally across a chimney (chimney n. 1), from which the chain or hook for holding cooking pots is hung. Also figurative. Cf. rantle n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > bar or chain for hanging rack1391 reckon1400 hake1402 kilp1425 pot-clip1459 pothangles1468 reckon-crook1469 kettle-hook1485 rax1519 pot hangings1521 pot hangerc1525 pot-crookc1530 pot-hook1530 trammel1537 pot-kilp1542 gallow-balk1583 hale1589 hanger1599 pot-keep1611 pot rack1619 reckon hook1645 ratten crook1665 winter1668 rantle1671 cotterel1674 rantle-tree1685 rannel-balk1781 sway1825 rannel-perch1855 1685 G. Sinclair Satans Invisible World Discovered vi. 37 This night they planted Candles all about the Rooms, and made fires up to the Rantle-trees of the Chimneys. 1754 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth in tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) 25 The lum o' a house that wanted baith crook an' rantle-tree. 1785 W. Hutton Bran New Wark 32 A seaty rattencreak hung dangling fra a black randletree. 1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) sig. K4 Rannel-tree, cross-beam in a chimney, on which the crook hangs. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 77 If ever I see that auld randle-tree of a wife again. 1833 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 12 Jan. 397/2 Ascending by a ladder to the rannle-tree, where he stood and rubbed the sides of the chimney all round with his shoulders. 1887 H. Caine Deemster II. xix. 53 Over the rannel-tree shelf a huge watch was ticking. 1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 226/2 Randle-tree,..the beam across a chimney on which the crook is hung. 1980 D. K. Cameron Willie Gavin v. 47 There was..the rantle-tree, a crossbar of iron set into either side of the chimney to take the links and pot crook. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1685 |
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