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单词 shewel
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sheweln.

Forms: α. Middle English schawles, s(c)heules, shueles, Middle English shewelys; β. Middle English, 1600s sewell, 1500s sewelle, sewel, shewelle, 1800s shewell, 1600s–1800s shewel. Also sewin n.2
Etymology: Early Middle English scheules , perhaps representing Old English *scīewels = Middle Low German schûwelse , Middle High German schûsel (modern German scheusal ), a derivative of the verb which appears as Old High German sciuhen (Middle High German schiuhen , schiuwen , modern German scheuen ) to scare. Compare shy v.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈshewel.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
A scarecrow. Also Hunting, something hung up or set up to keep a deer from entering a particular place, or from going in a particular direction. Also figurative.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > [noun] > thing placed to turn deer
shewelc1250
blancher1535
shewelling1575
blenchera1640
sewin1886
the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > bird-scarer
scarlec1440
scare1530
blencher1531
shail1531
fray-boggard1535
crow-keeper1562
malkinc1565
clacket1594
scarecrow1606
clap-mill1613
field keeper1620
shaw-fowl1621
bean-shatter1639
clapper1660
dudman1670
clack1678
hobidy-booby?1710
worricow1711
cherry-clapper1763
flay-crake1788
potato-bogle1815
cherry-clack1824
feather-piea1825
flay-crow1824
gally-baggar1825
gally-crow1825
bogle1830
tatie-bogle1838
shewel1888
scare-string1889
c1250 Owl & Night. 1648 Þu seist þat gromes þe i-foð..an summe of þe schawles [v.r. scheules] makeþ.
c1250 Owl & Night. 1128 Ac þu art shueles [v.r. sheules] suþe god.
1286 in Select Pleas Forest (Selden Soc.) 130 Intrare warennam cum rethibus et sewell' et capere volatilia.
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 13889 A shewelys enarmyd in the ffeld..Wych ys but A ded ffygure.
1535 R. Layton Let. in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monasteries (1843) 71 Getheryng up part of the saide bowke leiffes..therwith to make him sewelles or blawnsherres to kepe the dere within the woode, therby to have the better cry with his howndes.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xxxvii. 98 Any thing that is hung vp, is called a Sewel. And those are vsed most commonly to amaze a Deare, and to make him refuse to passe wher they are hanged vp.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. x. sig. Nn8v So are these bugbeares of opinions brought by great Clearkes into the world, to serue as shewelles to keepe them from those faults, whereto [etc.].
1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Sewell, a Paper, clout, or any thing hanged vp to keep a Deere from entring into a place.
1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 325 He knows both with what baites to incite them, and with what shewels to drive into the Net and Toyle.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 187/1 Bleinchers, and Sewels, are papers and stick laid cross a Fox-hole, to fear him and make him believe some Gin is set there.
1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases Shewell, a scarecrow.

Derivatives

shewelling n. setting up shewels.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > [noun] > thing placed to turn deer
shewelc1250
blancher1535
shewelling1575
blenchera1640
sewin1886
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > [noun] > scarecrow or device for scaring birds > action of setting up scarecrows
shewelling1575
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxix. 242 When they hang vppe any paper, clout, or other marke, then it is to be called Sewelling.
1627 J. Taylor Armado sig. D2 Dewclawes and Dowlcets, drawing the Couerte, Blemishes, Sewelling, Auant-laye, Allaye, Relaye [etc.].
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 188/2 Sewels or S[e]welling, is the setting up of clouts or papers, or the like, for marks, and to fear Deer away from a place.
1902 Gamekeeper Dec. 65/1 Sewelling in a piece of cord with rags and feathers fixed at every six inches..at a reasonable distance in front of the guns will ensure good flying birds.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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