单词 | shavegrass |
释义 | shavegrassn. A plant of the genus Equisetum (see horsetail n. 2); esp. E. hyemale. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > horse-tail and allies padpipe?a1300 paddock-pipec1300 holy-water strinklec1440 shavegrassc1450 shavewortc1450 horsetail1538 shaving-grass1538 cat's tail1552 toad-pipe1578 pewterwort1597 horse-willow1611 prêle1661 shave-weed1691 water horsetail1710 horse-pipe1785 rush1804 shave-rush1821 equisetum1830 pipeweed1837 scouring rush1845 mud horsetail1855 jointweed1879 bottlebrush1883 c1450 Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 37 Cauda equina, cauda caballina idem est. angl. schauegres. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. F.iiijv Polygonum femina is called in Englishe thycke Shauegrasse, or short Shaue grasse. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 956 This small or naked Shaue grasse, wherewith Fletchers and Combemakers doe..polish their worke, riseth out of the ground like..Asparagus. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. li. 408 It is more..hurtful than..the Sheavgrass to the Mowers of Hay. 1773 Hawkesworth's Acc. Voy. III. 644 [It] bites upon wood almost as keenly as the shave-grass of Europe. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 613 Rubbing with horse's tail (shave-grass) the parts to be yellowed. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 613 Rubbing the whole work with shave-grass, to remove any granular appearance. 1857 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. IV. 386 Rough Horsetail, Shave-grass, Dutch Rush. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.c1450 |
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