单词 | royal oak |
释义 | royal oakn. 1. A large or stately oak tree; (in later use) spec. the English or pedunculate oak, Quercus robur. Now rare.In quot. 1664: an oak tree from a royal forest. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > oak and allies > [noun] > other oaks red oakOE cerre-tree1577 gall-tree1597 robur1601 kermes1605 live oak1610 white oak1610 royal oak1616 swamp-oak1683 grey oak1697 rock oak1699 chestnut oak1703 water oak1709 Spanish oak1716 turkey-oak1717 willow oak1717 iron oak1724 maiden oak1725 scarlet oak1738 black jack1765 post oak1775 durmast1791 mountain chestnut oak1801 quercitron oak1803 laurel oak1810 mossy-cup oak1810 rock chestnut oak1810 pin oak1812 overcup oak1814 overcup white oak1814 bur oak1815 jack oak1816 mountain oak1818 shingle-oak1818 gall-oak1835 peach oak1835 golden oak1838 weeping oak1838 Aleppo oak1845 Italian oak1858 dyer's oak1861 Gambel's Oak1878 maul oak1884 punk oak1884 sessile oak1906 Garry oak1908 roble1908 1616 T. Scot 2nd Pt. Philomythie sig. B4 Tall Cedars, Cypres, Pine and royall Okes, With country Elmes, and Ash for plow and yokes. 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva xxxii. 114 The fittest sacrifice for the Royal-Oaks, and their Hamadryad's. 1707 Philos. Trans. 1706–7 (Royal Soc.) 25 2422 The Royal Oak..overspreading Subnascent Trees and young Suckers. a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) II. 320 A knife-haft made from the royal-oak. 1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 215/1 Q. regia, the Royal Oak. Leaves stalked,..heart-shaped, wavy... From Koordistan. 1898 3rd Ann. Rep. Pennsylvania Dept. Agric. 518 It is also late in life before the royal oak, Quercus Robur, assumes the rough-bark condition. 1900 Meehan's Monthly Nov. 167/1 England has good cause to be proud of the Royal Oak, Quercus Robur. 1969 Gardeners Chron. & New Horticulturalist 21 Feb. 35/2 It is thought that the most appropriate tree to plant (except in smokey atmospheres) will be the royal oak, Quercus pedunculata. 2. Usually with capital initials. A lottery of the later 17th and early 18th centuries, originally organized to benefit poor Royalist veterans of the English Civil War. Frequently as Royal Oak lottery. Now historical. ΚΠ 1663 E. Hayward Let. 21 Dec. in J. Q. Adams Dramatic Rec. Sir Henry Herbert (1917) 133 Not Doubting but that I shalbe reimbursed and encouraged when the business is in a more setled way, that the royall oake Lotteries, and musick are reduced to obedience. 1665 in Aberdeen Jrnl. Notes & Queries (1914) 7 120 The practiseing of the game called the Royall Oak. 1695 W. Congreve Love for Love i. i. 3 Ah Pox confound that Will's Coffee-House, it has ruin'd more Young Men than the Royal Oak Lottery. 1703 Daily Courant 4 Oct. 2/1 A Comedy call'd, The Sullen Lovers... With a new prologue by way of Elegy on the Death of the Royal Oak Lottery. 1718 A. de Moivre Doctr. Chances Pref. p. iii When the Play of the Royal Oak was in use, some Persons who lost considerably by it, had their losses chiefly occasioned by an Argument of which they could not perceive the Fallacy. 1899 Pall Mall Mag. 19 547 As early as 1696, lotteries, with the exception of the Royal Oak lottery, were prohibited as common nuisances. 2003 Huntington Libr. Q. 66 156 In 1664 Nathaniel Cole, a former mayor of Bristol, complained to Joseph Williamson that the Royal Oak, a veteran's lottery, ruined many young men. 3. Astronomy. With capital initials and usually with the. (The English name of) the former constellation Robur Carolinum. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > Southern constellations > [noun] > Robur Carolinum Robur Carolinum1702 royal oak1712 1712 E. Wells Young Gentleman's Astron., Chronol., & Dialling vii. 89 To these 15 are not long since added 12 Constellations, made up of the fixed Stars about the fourth Pole, and not visible to us, viz. the Phenix, the Crane..and the Royal Oak. ?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 487/1 The new Southern Constellations... Robur Carolinum, The Royal Oak. 1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 323 Our constellation of the Royal Oak is said to have found its way in new copies of the old Hindu treatises, into the company of the Seven Sages. 1907 R. S. Ball Great Astronomers 168 Halley..endeavoured to squeeze a new constellation into the group around the southern pole which he styled ‘The Royal Oak’. 1995 P. Whitfield Mapping of Heavens iii. 88 In Restoration England, Edward Sherburne and Edmond Halley devised respectively a Royal Heart and a Royal Oak in commemoration of Charles I and Charles II. 4. A sprig of oak worn to commemorate the restoration of Charles II in 1660.Recorded earliest in, and now only in, Royal Oak Day n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol > specific symbols > plants rose of Sharon1626 Sharon's rose1640 royal oak1759 Flanders poppy1918 palm1918 Easter lily1926 1759 S. Paterson Catal. Orig. Manuscripts J. Henley 25 Royal Oak Day. 1777 in J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. 354 Royal Oak The Whigs to provoke. 1825 London Lit. Gaz. 30 July 483/1 It [sc. May] is happier than the rest of the months in its 29th day, when we wear royal oak, and thank it for a Restoration. 1853 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 8 490 Each young loyalist is armed with a nettle..with which..are coerced those unfortunates who are unprovided with ‘royal oak’. Compounds Royal Oak Day n. now chiefly historical the anniversary of the Stuart restoration to the English throne on 29 May 1660, traditionally celebrated by the wearing of oak apples or oak leaves (see note in etymology); = Oak-apple Day n. at oak-apple n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > specific days of the year Candlemas1014 May Day1267 All Souls' Dayc1300 midsummer evena1400 firstc1400 Beltane1424 midsummer eve1426 quarter day1435 Beltane1456 mid-Sundaya1475 madding-day1568 Lord Mayor's day1591 Barnaby bright1595 Lammas-eve1597 All Saints' Night1607 Handsel Monday1635 distaff's day1648 long Barnabya1657 St. Valentine's eve1671 leet-day1690 All Fools' Day1702 Boxing Day1743 April Fool's Day1748 Royal Oak Day1759 box day1765 Oak-apple Day1802 All Souls' Eve1805 mischief night1830 Shick-shack Day1847 chalk-back day1851 call night1864 Nut-Monday1867 Arbor Day1872 April Fool's1873 Labour Day1884 Martinmas Sunday1885 call day1886 Samhain1888 Juneteenth1890 Mother's Day1890 Father's Day1908 Thinking Day1927 Punkie night1931 Tweede Nuwejaar1947 1759*Royal Oak Day [see sense 4]. 1884 Folk-lore Jrnl. 2 382 Those who did not conform to the usages of the ‘Royal Oak day’ were pelted with rotten eggs. 2003 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 26 May d4 The bars continue to celebrate Royal Oak Day with prize draws, specials and live music. 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