单词 | red ware |
释义 | red waren.1 Chiefly Scottish. A reddish kelp, Laminaria digitata; common tangle.Recorded earliest in compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > kelp and allies red ware1699 kelp-weed1805 kelp1839 Macrocystis1847 laminaria1848 1699 R. Sibbald Provision for Poor 21 Of the Cod kind, we have..the Ling, the redware Codling, the Podley,..[etc.]. 1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. IX. 339 The hand-line for the tanny cod, (or red ware cod, as they call it), among the rocks and sea-weed. 1796 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XVII. 233 The tangle (Fucus Digitatus, Lin.), the top of which is here called red ware. 1806 P. Neill Tour Orkney & Shetl. 29 On deep shores..great quantities of red-ware or sea-girdles (F. digitatus) are collected with long hooks at low water. 1808 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. V. 155 In Loch Erriboll..red-ware, or sea-weed, is produced in such quantity as to afford yearly ten or twelve tons of kelp. 1877 G. Stewart Shetland Fireside Tales 17 Du lüte dy horse eat tangles an' redwir till he wis at da bons o' meesery. 1904 Dennison's Orcadian Sketches (new ed.) 12 There's no' a drap o' sea tae be seen; I cinno se the taps o' the reed ware. 1996 M. Flaws & G. Lamb Orkney Dict. 55/1 Reidware, seaweed. Compounds redware cod n. a young cod found inshore, often among seaweed (and sometimes said to have a reddish colour from eating this). ΚΠ 1793 [see main sense]. 1805 G. Barry Hist. Orkney iii. i. 289 The Wrasse..is very often found in company with what we call the red-ware cod. 1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes II. 148 On the coast of Durham and Northumberland, and at the Isle of Man, the Cod acquire a dark red or reddish brown colour; and are called Red Cod, Ware Cod, and Red Ware Cod, when of this particular colour. 1996 M. Flaws & G. Lamb Orkney Dict. 55/1 Reidware cod, an inshore codling. redware codling n. = redware cod n. ΚΠ 1699 [see main sense]. 1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife & Kinross ii. iii. 52 Asellus varius vel striatus Shonfeldii, the Redware Codling. 1899 Shetland News 22 Apr. We might..get a diet o' flukes, or twa redwaar codlins oot o' da voe mooth. 1932 J. M. E. Saxby Shetland Trad. Lore 202 Young cod that lived among weed of reddish hue were known as red-waur codlins. 1979 J. J. Graham Shetland Dict. 68/2 Redwaar codlin, cod which is reddish-coloured through feeding among waar. ΚΠ 1805 G. Barry Hist. Orkney iii. i. 292 The Whistle Fish (gadus mustela..) or, as it is here named, the red-ware fishick, is a species very often found under the stones among the sea-weed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.11699 |
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