单词 | scopperil |
释义 | scopperiln. 1. a. A kind of teetotum or small top (spun with the thumb and finger) made by passing a pointed peg through the centre of a disc (often a flat button or button-mould). Now dialect (see Eng. Dial. Dict.).In some dialects applied to a small disc (as a button-mould) apart from its application. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > top > [noun] > other tops scopperilc1425 fizgig1656 gyroscope top1880 dice-top1894 c1425 St. Christina xxiv, in Anglia VIII. 128/35 Alle hir body was..turnyd in to a whirlynge about as a scoprelle or a toppe þat childer playe with. 1483 Cath. Angl. 324/1 A scoperelle, giraculum. 1621 G. Markham Hungers Preuention 117 Vpon the least touch it will twerle and tourne as round as any Scopperill. 1636 W. Sampson Vow Breaker i. i. B 2 If once we creepe out o' th shells, we run from our ould loves like Scopperells, weomens minds are planetary. Categories » b. transferred. Applied to an active, restless child; also to a squirrel. dialect. (See Eng. Dial. Dict.) ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > [noun] > cognizance > types of scopperil1486 knot1828 mon1861 1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. b iv b Diaclys be called in armys scopprellys. 1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory (1597) 37 The sixt badge are Diacles, commonly called Scopperelles. 3. dialect. A seton: = scopel n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > veterinary equipment > rowel or seton rowel1566 tampion1566 French rowel1639 scopel1740 wisp1787 scopperil1855 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 147 A Scopperil, a plug put into an issue or seton made in the diseased part of an animal to drain off the humours. 1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) 82 Scopperel. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Scopper, scopperalt, scoperal, a seton. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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