| 单词 | red keelie-vine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred keelie-vine a. A black-lead pencil, or more generally, any coloured pencil enclosed in wood (as a red keelie-vine); also, in some places, black-lead, plumbago. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > writing instrument > [noun] > pencil > lead pencil lead-pencil1688 keelivine1808 wad-pencil1825 c1720 W. Mitchel in Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (1880) III. 11/1 If God's Providence were not wonderful, I would long since been crying Kile vine, and Kilie vert, considering I began upon a crown, and a poor trade.] 1808–18 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Keelivine, a black-lead pencil. 1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 509 Wi' the verra mere, naked unassisted keelavine (that day fortunately it was a red ane,) I caught the character o' the apparition. 1884 Scot. Ch. Rev. I. 5 His appliances as yet are a keelyvine and a Balaam-box. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Keely-vine, a pencil, originally a pencil made from keel, but applied generally to ‘vines’ or pencils. 1899 Cumbld. Gloss. Calavine, a black-lead pencil. < as lemmas |
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