单词 | rough-hew |
释义 | † rough-hewn. Obsolete. rare. A rough shaping; a first attempt. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > prototype > [noun] > rough preliminary draft scantling1567 rough-hew1641 idea1648 rough1699 roughout1905 1641 R. Vaughan Let. 31 July in Archaeoll. Cambrensis (1872) 4th Ser. 3 7 Nature hath given him but a rough hew. 1889 G. M. Hopkins Lett. to R. Bridges (1935) 301 It was only a sketch, a rough-hew of a song. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2018). rough-hewv. 1. transitive. To give a rough preliminary shape to (wood, stone, etc.); to cut roughly or coarsely. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > shape or give shape to [verb (transitive)] > by or as by cutting > roughly rough-hew1530 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > build or construct with wood [verb (transitive)] > other processes makec1450 rough-hew1530 rip1532 stick1573 list1635 frame1663 fur1679 beard1711 cord1762 butt1771 drill1785 joint1815 rend1825 broach1846 ross1853 flitch1875 bore1887 stress-grade1955 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 694/2 I rougheheawe a pece of tymber to make an ymage of, or to put to some byldyng, je charpis. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes To rough hewe a peece of timber or stone. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 297 His successours..should pollish the stones which he had onely rough hewed. 1640 Bp. J. Hall Episcopacie iii. vii. 254 It appeares then, that Farell and Viret rough-hew'd this statue, which Calvin after polished. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 215. ¶8 To return to our Statue in the Block of Marble, we see it sometimes only begun to be chipped, sometimes rough-hewn. 1786 G. Washington Farm Rep. 21 Jan. in Papers (1994) Confederation Ser. III. 395 Rough hewed the timber for a harrow plow. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. iii. 39 A long oaken table formed of planks rough-hewn from the forest..stood ready prepared for the evening meal. 1882 Cent. Mag. Dec. 175/1 One might almost suppose the sculptor had only rough-hewn the face, and had failed to round off the square forehead and the projecting nose and chin. 1914 A. Reade Finland & Finns (1917) xii. 224 They cut down the trees, rough-hew them with axes,..and take them to the nearest waterway. 1965 Technol. & Culture 6 379 Essentially the same process was used in chipping the fine Solutrean tools as in rough-hewing the Chellean ones. 2009 Independent Traveller (Nexis) 1 Aug. 12 The baker's husband rough-hews our loaf into uneven lumps. 2. transitive and intransitive. In extended use. To shape roughly; to make a first attempt; to work or make in the rough.In later use frequently with allusion to Shakespeare (quot. 1604). ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > have (specific) shape [verb (intransitive)] > shape roughly rough-hew1565 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Exascio Plaut. Iam hoc opus est exasciatum. It is rough hewed, or squared out, or it is begunne. 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. C3 He..speakes not that sentence in the Pulpit, which before he rough-hewes not ouer with his penne. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. ii. 11 Ther's a diuinity that shapes our ends, Rough hew them how we will. View more context for this quotation a1645 D. Featley in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus (1651) 541 And first he ruff-hewed, and after polished and published his exquisite tract. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 174 This proves that Wit does but rough-hew, Leaves Art to polish, and review. 1740 tr. N. F. d'Alancourt Health Restor'd i. 4 Nature does but rough-hew our Aliments, and..Art must bring them to Perfection. 1831 W. Scott Abbot (new ed.) II. xviii. 359 (note) The supernatural machinery with which his plan, when it was first rough-hewn, was connected. 1852 ‘A. Lothrop’ Dollars & Cents I. xxvii. 259 ‘There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.’.. ‘I was not “rough-hewing”, sir, believe me.’ 1868 Westm. Rev. Jan. 188 Both were engaged in rough-hewing an empire. 1908 C. R. L. Fletcher Introd. Hist. Eng. vi. 143 ‘There's a divinity that doth shape the ends’ of Spain, England, Scotland, Flanders and France, rough-hew them how their sovereigns will. 1921 A. E. Waite New Encycl. Freemasonry I. 75 To broach is to rough-hew, and broached work is the stone in its rough-hewn state. 1944 Jrnl. Biblical Lit. 63 408 Derived from some unimpeachable source, which the redactor could roughhew, to disguise its intractable incompatibility. 2001 A. Chamberlin Merlin of Oak Wood xi. 117 The Scot rough-hewed the French words out of the burred panting in his throat. Derivatives ˈrough-hewer n. [compare West Frisian rûchhouwer] ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > [noun] > shaping > shaping by or as by cutting > roughly > one who rough-hewer1574 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > woodworker > [noun] > other woodworkers rough-hewer1574 hoop-shaver1688 timber-taster1803 spaller1843 pump log borer1857 stamp-cutter1858 creosoter1889 timberman1890 worm-eater1890 slabby1907 1574 J. Baret Aluearie H 390 A rough hewer, lapicida. 1660 S. Clarke Lives Two & Twenty Eng. Divines 87 He now..preacheth in another manner then formerly, opens the depths of Satan, and deceitfulnesse of the heart, so as he was called the Rough Hewer. ?1724 Secret Hist. Free-masons 25 Also that no Mason Mould, Square, and Rule, to any rough Hewer. 1855 J. Ogilvie Suppl. Imperial Dict. Rough-hewer, one who rough-hews. 1921 E. J. Dillon Mexico on Verge (ed. 2) iii. 24 The Carranzist rough-hewers of Mexico's destinies. 2006 F. Brown Flaubert (2007) ix. 181 Pradier..worked best when surrounded by models, rough-hewers, and visitors to his principal atelier. ˈrough-hewing n. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > [noun] > shaping > shaping by or as by cutting > roughly rough-hewing1587 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1272/1 If things be not in perfection vpon this first rough hewing. a1640 W. Fenner Christs Alarm (1646) 158 Beloved our times are knotty times. Rough hewing is needful. 1718 J. Ozell tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Voy. Levant I. 10 Ferrier..had in rough-hewing made the Figure of Andromeda a little too short. 1896 Queen's Q. (Queen's Univ., Kingston, Ont.) Apr. 279 The rough-hewing is not the same as the finishing process. 1989 Manch. Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 21 May 23 I had to do all the work myself, without any helper to tackle the rough-hewing. 2003 M. Montgomery John Crowe Ransom & Allen Tate i. 22 With the growing effects of empiricism..the rough-hewing begins to appear more and more a fine tuning of nature (human and other). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1641v.1530 |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。