单词 | sheltron |
释义 | † sheltronn.1 Obsolete. 1. A close, compact body of troops; troops drawn up in battle array; a phalanx.The word became obsolete in the 15th cent.; all subsequent examples are echoes from early chronicles. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > [noun] > compact formation sheltronc1000 phalangea1460 phalanx1553 stand of pikes1587 c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) xlvii. 274 Subter densa testudine under ðiccum scyldtruman oððe randbeage. c1000 in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses i. 2959 Testudine, of scyltruman. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13729 Heo comen to þere uerde..& þene sceld-trume [c1300 Otho sultrome] breken. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8170 He nom his eorles..& his holdeste men..& makede his sceld-trume [c1300 Otho one soltrome]. c1325 Coer de L. 5577 They made scheltroun and bataylyde. c1325 Coer de L. 5744 He brak asunder the scheltrome. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 3512 Þey bere þe launces vp and doun, On þe manere of a scheltroun [Petyt MS. cheltroun]. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xiv. 8 And thei dressiden aȝens hem sheltrun in the wodi valey. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 61 Þe Romayns wyfes..wente..bytwene þe scheltroms, and cryde pees. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxi. 294 [They] sheteþ out shot ynowh hus shultrom to blende. 1422 J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. xxxi. 174 Haniball..ordaynyd his shildrymes, steryn battaill he yaue. c1440 Eng. Conq. Irel. (Rawl. MS.) 31 Thay brakyn har sheldrun, and wentyn aftyr. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) xii. 429 For all thar battailis samyn wer In a schiltrum [1487 St. John's Cambr. childrome]. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xx. 326 A-gein hem myght endure noon harneys, ne no kynge, ne warde, ne sheltron, were it neuer so clos. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxvii. f. cxxxvii Than the Seltrons smote togyder with a great noyse and crye, and faught sore alonge season. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 266/2 Scheltrone of a batayle. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 833/1 The Scottes [at Falkirk, 1298] were deuided in foure schiltrons, as they termed them, or as we may say, round battailes. 2. transferred. Applied to a compact body of ships. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > a number of in company > compact body of ships sheltronc1540 c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3239 The sheltrun togedur, Þat fild were with folke.., Sesit vp þere sailes. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 6033. 3. The word jeltron, geltron in the following quot., commonly cited as a form of sheltron, is probably a misprint for *jestron, gestron: see gesteron n. ΚΠ ?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. A.iiv No armure so stronge in no dystresse Habergyon helme ne yet no Ieltron [a1586 (ed. Waley) geltron]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † sheltronn.2 Obsolete. rare. A standard, gauge. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > [noun] > that by which one measures measure1340 sheltron1377 scantling1587 scale1626 gauge1692 measurer1775 Richter scale1958 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiv. 81 For-þi mesure we vs wel and make owre faithe owre scheltroun [v.rr. as above]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1c1000n.21377 |
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