α. 1600s ratting crook.
β. 1700s ratten creak, 1800s ratton creak, 1800s– ratten crook, 1900s– ratton creeak.
单词 | ratten crook |
释义 | ratten crookn.α. 1600s ratting crook. β. 1700s ratten creak, 1800s ratton creak, 1800s– ratten crook, 1900s– ratton creeak. English regional (northern) A crook used for suspending pots over a fire; = reckon-crook 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 1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales Chaucer 135 Having laid his Heel on the Ratting Crook, to pass the Winter-night away. 1785 W. Hutton Bran New Wark 32 A seaty rattencreak hung dangling fra a black randletree. a1824 J. Briggs Remains (1825) 226 In the better sort of houses, there was a long crook reaching from the rannel-balk to the fire, called the ratten-crook. 1866 E. Lynn Linton Lizzie Lorton I. xii. 268 Two large iron ‘ratten-crooks’ and several smaller ones, for cauldrons and kettles, hung from the ‘rannel balk’. a1919 W. B. Kendall Forness Word Bk. (Cumbria County Archives, Barrow) (transcript of MS) Rannel-bōk, cross beam in a chimney from which the ratton creeak is suspended. 1974 Country Life 17 Oct. 1149/2 A ratten-crook is a pot crane hanging from the rannel-balk which is the wooden beam across and above an open hearth. 1991 P. Brears in Trad. Food East & West of Pennines iv. 81 To control the smoke, ‘coves’ made either of slabs of stone or sheets of moulded iron arched across the area above the hob and fire grate, still leaving sufficient space here for a chimney crane with its ratten crooks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1665 |
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