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单词 shail
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shailn.1

Forms: Also shayle.
Etymology: Compare shewel n.
Obsolete. rare.
A scarecrow.
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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
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > [noun] > scarecrow or device for scaring birds
buga1425
scarlec1440
scare1530
blencher1531
shail1531
fray-boggard1535
malkinc1565
clacket1594
bogle-bo1603
scarecrow1606
blinks1611
clap-mill1613
shaw-fowl1621
dudman1670
hobidy-booby?1710
cherry-clapper1763
flay-crake1788
potato-bogle1815
cherry-clack1824
feather-piea1825
flay-crow1824
gally-baggar1825
gally-crow1825
bogle1830
deadman1839
hodmandod1881
scarer1930
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xxiii. sig. Lvv The good husbande..settethe vp cloughtes or thredes, whiche some call shailes [1557 shayles],..to feare away birdes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

shailn.2

Forms: In 1500s shayle.
Etymology: < shail v.2
dialect. rare.
A crooked gait; a shuffling, awkward manner of walking. First in a-shayle adv. moving or walking in a shuffling, awkward manner.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adverb] > awkwardly
a-shayle1530
shamblingly1872
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > awkward
shailingc1440
shambling1681
slouch1725
slouchinga1764
shamble1826
shail1887
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 831/1 A shayle with the knees togyther, and the fete outwarde, a eschays.
1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders I. xi. 202 Fancy..her bounding walk becoming the regular Hintock shail-and-wamble.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

shailv.1

Etymology: An alteration of skail v. (perhaps a scribal error; the manuscript elsewhere has skail.)
Obsolete. rare.
intransitive. = skail v. 9.
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the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [verb (intransitive)]
bredeOE
bespreadc1275
skaila1300
springc1390
shaila1400
spread1560
disperse1605
diffuse1655
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 18836 His hare..bi his eres shailande sumdele [Vesp. skailand] sumdele.
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shailv.2

/ʃeɪl/
Forms: Middle English schayle, Middle English scheyle, (1500s shoyle, scayle, skayle), 1500s, 1800s shayl, 1500s–1600s, 1800s shale, (1600s ? shael), 1600s– shail.
Etymology: Possibly a metathetic derivative of Old English sceolh oblique.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
1.
a. intransitive. To stumble, to walk or move in a shuffling, shambling manner.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > walk awkwardly
shail?a1400
scamble1633
shamble1681
trollopa1745
staup1788
shammock?1857
?a1400 Morte Arth. 1098 Schovelle-fotede was þat schalke, and schaylande hyme semyde, With schankez unschaply, schowande to-gedyrs.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 443/1 Schaylyn, or scheylyn. (Disgredior.)
1483 Cath. Angl. 332/1 To Schayle [v.r. Schaylle], degradi & degredi.
a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Certayne Bks. (?1545) sig. A.iii Our thomasen she doth trip, our ienet she doth shayle.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 700/1 I shayle with the fete, jentretaille des piedz. I never sawe man have a worse pace, se how he shaylleth.
1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis ii. f. 3v The wayne for want of weight..Dyd hoyse aloft and skayle [1567 scayle] and reele, as thoughe it empty were.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lv. 155 They [sc. wild swine] set not their hinderfoote within their forefoote, and their gards fall straight vpon the ground and neuer shoyle or leane outwards.
1593 Passionate Morrice in Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift (1876) 82 Other, which were well legde, shaled with their feete, or were splafooted.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables ccxxi. 193 Child [a young crab], (says the Mother) You must Use your self to Walk Streight, without Skewing, and Shailing so Every step you set.
1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders I. xi. 202 She may shail; but she'll never wamble.
b. figurative. To blunder, be wrong.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > blunder [verb (intransitive)]
shail1528
blunder1711
floor1835
to make a bloomer1889
pull1913
to drop a brick1916
boob1935
to put up a black1939
goof1941
to screw up1942
to drop a bollock1948
to drop a clanger1948
to cock up1974
1528 J. Skelton Honorificatissimo: Replycacion agaynst Yong Scolers sig. Avv Ye shayle inter enigmata And inter paradigmata.
a1529 J. Skelton Womanhod 19 Good mastres Anne, there ye do shayle.
a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. B.iiv What Colyne there thou shales.
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2. ? To blink. rare. (See shailing n. at Derivatives.)
3. dialect.
a. intransitive. To glide or move in a slanting direction.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > move sideways [verb (intransitive)] > move obliquely
glentc1330
lean1398
slenta1400
glintc1440
skew1488
sklent1513
slanta1849
sashay1865
cater1873
diagonalize1884
shail1895
1895 A. Patterson Man & Nature on Broads 78 High over-head some great grey gulls are ‘shayling’ in erratic flight, making seaward.
b. transitive. To throw (a flat missile) with a gliding motion. [Possibly a distinct word.]
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (transitive)] > a missile or projectile > flat
quoit1525
shail1832
1832 S. Austin tr. H. L. H. von Pückler-Muskau Tour German Prince III. v. 127 It is also no rarity for some one to throw the fragments of his ‘gouté’..on the heads of the people in the pit, or to shail them with singular dexterity into the boxes.
a1855 W. T. Spurdens Forby's Vocab. E. Anglia (1858) III. 44 Shail, to throw a flat missile, as a tile or an oyster shell.

Derivatives

ˈshailing n.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > awkward
shailingc1440
shambling1681
slouch1725
slouchinga1764
shamble1826
shail1887
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] > movements of eye > winking or blinking
prinkOE
twinklinga1300
blenching1393
twink14..
blenking?a1505
twinking1519
twinkle1548
connivance1596
winka1616
nictation1623
shailing1653
nictitation1794
blinking1871
blink1924
bat1932
saccade1953
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 443/1 Schaylynge (or scheylynge, loripedacio).
1653 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis (rev. ed.) vi. 106 The word..was Hippos, which signifies a perpetuall shaeling of the Eyes.
ˈshailing adj.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adjective] > having specific manner of walking > awkward or clumsy
shailing1398
weltering1570
scambling1633
shambling1690
walloping1837
festoony1843
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum viii. xii. (Tollemache MS.) Þe scrabbe is schaylynge beste [1495 a sheylynge, 1535 shelynge, 1582 shelling beest] and gooþ bakwarde.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fauquet,..a shaling wry-legd fellow.
1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. 237 This is too narrow a path, for many shaleing professours to walk in now adays.
ˈshailer n. a person who shambles in his gait.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > awkward > one who
shailerc1440
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 443/1 Schaylare.
c1460 Promptorium Parvulorum (Winch.) 395 Schey, or skey, or horsys or schyttyl scheylere, idem quod schaylare, supra.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 266/1 Schayler that gothe a wrie with his fete, boytevx.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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