单词 | shewel |
释义 | sheweln. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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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