单词 | scrieving |
释义 | scrievingn. 1. Scottish. The activity or skill of writing; (also) the result of this, a piece of writing.Sometimes (and in earliest use) attributive. ΚΠ 1650 in J. Davidson Inverurie (1878) 313 And quhair the clerk has littell scriwand dexteritie let the moderator help him in formalie framing and dexterous wording of acts. 1890 R. L. Stevenson Vailima Lett. (1895) 4 Fifty pages of solid scriving inside a fortnight. 1983 M. Lindsay Thank you for having Me v. 96 Alex and I enjoyed putting the paper together, filling the missing gaps with our own overnight scrieving. 2010 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 31 Jan. (Opinion section) 2/3 Wullie Shakespeare, who would fail a university scrieving—guid Scots word—course today. 2. The action or process of scoring or engraving, esp. on wood. Cf. scrieve v.1 2, scribing n. 2. Now rare.Recorded earliest in scrieving iron n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun] > making grooves sulcation1658 fluting1728 grooving1728 scoring1769 scrieving1828 graving1877 furrowing1891 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Scriving irons, Instruments for numbering trees. 1888 Trans. Buchan Field Club 52 In order to branding, the curer is required to scratch the date and method of his cure on the side of his barrel... The operation..is known as ‘scrieving’. 1891 I. C. Barrows Conf. Man. Training 158 Bench-work:—Twelve exercises illustrating the principles of..laying out: measuring, gauging, and scriving. 1920 Shipbuilding & Shipping Rec. 5 Feb. 172/1 Fully 50 per cent. of the time taken to prepare the scrive board is taken up by the scriving of the decks, stringers, tank floors, [etc.]. 1955 Illustr. London News 8 Oct. 616 (caption) Two awls, or scriving tools. 1983 Japan Industrial & Technol. Bull. Apr. 13/2 In addition to cutting, boring and scriving of alumina ceramic materials without cracking, the system can also be used for precision cutting of various materials such as plastics and rubber. 2002 I. G. R. Dormor Woodland Managem. in Two Yorks. Dales since 15th Cent. (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Leeds) 101 The wet conditions made access extremely difficult, and marking or scrieving of the trees could only be carried out when the ground was frozen hard. Compounds scrieving board n. Shipbuilding and Boatbuilding a large platform made of planks on which the body plan of a ship or boat is marked out in full size sections, so that the parts can be cut to the proper shape; = scrieve board n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding > drawing board scrieve board1869 scrieving board1869 1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding xx. 429 The name commonly given to these boards by the workmen is the scrive or scriving boards. 1906 Forest & Stream 20 Jan. 106/1 The work on the scriving board is nearly completed. 1956 Trans. Inst. Naval Architects 98 70/1 In this bay are furnaces, bending slabs, scriving board, and machines for punching, drilling, countersinking, etc. scrieving iron n. now historical a pointed tool for carving identifying marks, esp. on trees; cf. scrieve iron n., scribing iron n. at scribing n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Scriving irons, Instruments for numbering trees. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Scriving-iron, an instrument used for numbering trees for sale. 1909 27th Ann. Rep. Fishery Board Scotl. 1908 257 The bracker appears in white apron, woollen gloves, and scrieving iron in each hand. 2002 I. G. R. Dormor Woodland Managem. in Two Yorks. Dales since 15th Cent. (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Leeds) 99 The trees to be cut had been marked with scrieving irons by the lngilbys' agent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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