单词 | scatch |
释义 | scatchn.1 1. A stilt; usually plural scatches. Obsolete exc. dialect. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > other means of conveyance > [noun] > stilts stiltc1440 scatch1542 Tom Walker1899 1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca Grallatores, they whiche do go on styltes or skaches. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Aiiv/1 A Scache, grallus. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. i. 5 Others grew in the legs, and to see them, you would have said they had been..men walking upon stilts or scatches. 1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 915 Never,..till geese go on scatches. 1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Scatches, Stilts to put the Feet in to walk in dirty Places. 1893 S. Baring-Gould Cheap Jack Zita I. xii. 188 Sketches?—does that word puzzle you..? They are what some folk call stilts. 2. ? A scaffold-pole. [So French échasse.] ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > ladder > scaffolding > [noun] > part of > pole scatch1420 cabera1522 scaffolding pole1759 scaffold pole1798 trestle-post1799 1420 Searchers Verdicts in Surtees Misc. (1890) 15 William of Alne..sall fynde the brygges, the scaches, nayles, and all the tymbre that sall ga un to the gutter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † scatchn.2 Obsolete. An oval bridle-bit. Also scatch-mouth. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > bit kevela1300 barnaclea1382 bitc1385 molanc1400 bridle bit1438 snafflea1533 titup1537 bastonet?1561 cannon?1561 scatch1565 cannon bit1574 snaffle-bit1576 port mouth1589 watering snaffle1593 bell-bit1607 campanel1607 olive1607 pear-bit1607 olive-bit1611 port bit1662 neck-snaffle1686 curb-bit1688 masticador1717 Pelham1742 bridoon1744 slabbering-bit1753 hard and sharp1787 Weymouth1792 bridoon-bit1795 mameluke bit1826 Chiffney-bit1834 training bit1840 ring snaffle1850 gag-snaffle1856 segundo1860 half-moon bit1875 stiff-bit1875 twisted mouth1875 thorn-bit1886 Scamperdale1934 bit-mouth- 1565–80 T. Blundeville Newe Bk. Arte Ryding iii. xxiii. 51 Some are called Canon bits, some scatches. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Scaccia, the mouth of a bit called a scache. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice ii. 56 The next byt you shall vse after the Cannon, shall bee the plaine Scatch. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Scace, a Scatch bit. 1717 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 2) at Bits The Ends of a Scatch-mouth can never fail, by reason of their being over-lapped. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < |
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