| 单词 | roof timber |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroof timber roof timber n. In quot. OE apparently erroneously glossing Latin imbrices (curved) roof tiles. ΚΠ OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 291 [Rubrisque] tegularum imbricibus tecta : tighelana þece brycum hrofty uel roftimbrim uel tigelum hrofas [OE Digby 146 tigelena þecum, tigelum, brycum, hroftimbrum i. culmina, hrofas.] a1675 J. Lightfoot tr. R. Jose in Wks. (1684) 1068 The Owner of the lower room is to lay on the roof-timber. 1723 tr. F. C. Weber Present State Russia I. 337 Then the Roof-timber is set up, and thin Splinters nailed upon it. 1828 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. I. 359 The third [stone]..shivered its strong roof-timbers into a thousand pieces. 1995 Victorian Soc. Ann. 1994 13 The architect was William Butterfield, the patron Alexander Beresford Hope, and the painter who carried out the huge frescoed reredos and decorated the roof timbers, William Dyce. < as lemmas |
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