单词 | shaw |
释义 | shawn.1 Now archaic and dialect. 1. a. A thicket, a small wood, copse or grove. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > thicket, brake, or brush shaw755 thicketa1000 thyvela1000 greavec1050 wood-shawc1275 boscagec1400 greenwood shawc1405 thickc1430 brakec1440 shaw of wood1462 queach1486 bush1523 tuft1555 bushment1587 bocage1644 cripple1675 virgult1736 bluffc1752 thick-set1766 sylvagea1774 thicket-maze1813 bosk1815 woodlet1821 rush1822 puckerbrush1867 755–7 in Birch Cartul. Sax. (1885) I. 258 Terra illa juxta silvam quam dicunt Tocca sceaga. 987 in Kemble Cod. Dipl. (1845) III. 229 Ðis syndon ða landgæmæro to Westwuda..of ðære hlywan suð onbutan færs scagan on ða dic [etc.]. a1200 Newminster Chartul. (1878) 75 Per has devisas, a rivulo propinquiore le Hangande-scauhe versus septentrionem. a1200 Newminster Chartul. (1878) 75 Usque ad rivulum primo nominatum propinquiorem ab Hangandescawe. a1300 Thrush & Night. xxi, in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 244 Hy beth briȝttore ounder shawe, Then the day, wenne hit dawe. c1325 Orpheo 242 In somer he lyveth by hawys, That on hauthorne growth by schawys. c1386 G. Chaucer Cook's Tale 3 Gaillard he was as Goldfynch in the shawe. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 333 Hou he to love untrewe was..And tok his lust under the schawe Ayein love and ayein his lawe. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2161 At a schaȝe syde. c1400 Anturs of Arth. vi Þei..suwene to þe souerayne within schaghes schene [v.rr. undur the scha schene, in cleues so clene]. c1440 Bone Flor. 1504 Tymely as the day can dawe, He led her thorow a feyre schawe. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Cock & Fox l. 419 in Poems (1981) 20 Ane lytill fra this foirsaid vedowis hows, Ane thornie schaw thair wes of grit defence, Quhairin ane foxe..Maid his repair. ?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 54 Berdis shoutit in schaw with ther still notis. 1573 G. Harvey Schollers Loove in Let.-bk. (1884) 127 In the shawe there lurkes an ilfavorid padd. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 15 Paslay quhilke is situat amang cnowis, grene woodis, schawis, and forrest fair. c1730 A. Ramsay Eagle & Robin 57 Straicht to the schaw he spred his wing. 1742 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 3) I. 159 In a Shave belonging to the Estate of Sir John Hales. 1787 R. Burns Let. 1 June (2001) I. 120 A new blawn plumrose in a hazle shaw. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xiv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 314 Saddle the gentleman's horse, and lead him..ahint the thorny shaw. 1849 A. R. Smith Pottleton Legacy xvi. 131 The wet cloggy footpaths through the shaws and copses. b. In the same sense, shaw of wood (archaic); see also greenwood shaw at greenwood n. Compounds. Cf. wood-shaw n. (common in Middle English verse). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > thicket, brake, or brush shaw755 thicketa1000 thyvela1000 greavec1050 wood-shawc1275 boscagec1400 greenwood shawc1405 thickc1430 brakec1440 shaw of wood1462 queach1486 bush1523 tuft1555 bushment1587 bocage1644 cripple1675 virgult1736 bluffc1752 thick-set1766 sylvagea1774 thicket-maze1813 bosk1815 woodlet1821 rush1822 puckerbrush1867 a1400 Octouian 355 As he rood be a wodes schawe.] 1462 in J. Raine Charters Priory Finchale (1837) 95 An othir parcell o wod also cald the lewod on the estsid, and buttes atte northend apon a shaw o wod of the said William Tillyall, and atte estend apon the more. 1483 Cath. Angl. 334/1 A Schawe of wod, virgultum. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xxix. 346 One night in Scotland in a shaw of wood by Silvermills. 2. spec. A strip of wood or underwood forming the border of a field. Cf. shaw v.1 ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > belt or line of trees > serving as screen or border shawa1563 screenc1660 snow-break1837 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > enclosed land or field > field systems > border or boundary of field loaning-dike1383 hade?1523 shawa1563 rim1864 tree-limit1934 a1563 V. Leigh Moste Profitable Sci. Surueying (1577) sig. I ij What shawes, or good hedge~rowes of wood be about euery fence. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 331 A Shaw, a Wood that encompasses a Close. 1736 J. Lewis Hist. Isle Tenet (ed. 2) 38 Shave, a small Copse of Wood by a Field Side. 1798 J. Middleton View Agric. Middlesex 136 Divided into small inclosures by high hedges and broad shaws. 1842 Darwin in F. Darwin Life & Lett. (1887) I. 320 A country..possessing a certain charm in the shaws, or straggling strips of wood, capping the chalky banks. 1859 Luard in Archaeologia Cantiana 2 6 There had been a shaw partly covering the place where we were digging. 1860 W. H. Ainsworth Ovingdean Grange 8 A large close, encompassed by a shaw, or fence of low trees. 3. (See quot. 1813.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [noun] > brow browa1500 shaw1813 1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake Notes 377 Shaw..likewise..denotes the snout, or brow of a hill; but the part so denominated is always understood to be..broad at the base, and contracted to a point above. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). shawn.2 Scottish. The stalks and leaves of certain plants, esp. potatoes and turnips. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > head or heart > [noun] > green parts > of vegetables wisome1688 wizle1688 shaw1801 1801 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 412 I..made trials as to the effects of cutting the haum, or shaw, as it is commonly called in Scotland, at different stages of its growth. 1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 258 The shaws or tops of the plants being removed. 1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake i. viii. 71 But mine was made of ane humloke schaw, And a stout stallion was he. 1851 Rural Cycl. IV. 178 Shaw, the haulm of potatoes, beans, and similar plants. 1887 A. S. Swan Gates of Eden xv. 202 The potato fields, with only heaps of sodden shaws and the long, newly-filled pits to tell of what had been. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). shawn.3 Scottish. (See quot. 1844.) ΚΠ 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 163 The fore legs [of oxen] are usually farther apart than the hind, but the hind at times, when the shaw or cod is large and fat, is as much and even more apart. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † shawv.1 Obsolete. transitive. To fence or border (a field) with a shaw n.1 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [verb (transitive)] > surround with trees wood1538 shaw1610 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. ii. 49 Collaterage Actiue, as siding, furrowing, balking,..hedging or shawing, immounding, impayling [etc.]. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. ii. 49 Compound Contiguall Boundage is more significant, as side-haying, head~shawing, &c. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021). shawv.2 Scottish. transitive. To cut off the tops of (potatoes, turnips, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparing fruit and vegetables > prepare fruit and vegetables [verb (transitive)] > remove tops shaw1882 1882 J. Walker Sc. Poems 86 She maun shaw the frosty neeps. 1895 S. R. Crockett Men of Moss-hags lvi I heard the horrible crunch as of one that shaws frosty cabbages with a blunt knife. 1895 W. C. Fraser Whaups of Durley iv. 43 All were busy..shawing turnips. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1755n.21801n.31844v.11610v.21882 |
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