单词 | shoulder blade |
释义 | shoulder bladen. a. Each of the two flat triangular bones articulated with the humerus, and lying over the ribs in the upper part of the back in all mammals; the scapula. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bony support for limbs > shoulder-girdle > [noun] > shoulder bone shoulder bladea1300 shoulder bladea1300 shoulder-bonec1320 spauld-bonec1400 omoplate?a1425 scapple1578 scapula1578 shield-bonec1600 spade-bone1612 plate-bonea1665 speal-bone1771 blade-bone1845 a1300 Havelok 2644 Bi þe shu [l] dre-blade þe sharpe swerd let [he] wade, þorw the brest unto þe herte. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 823 Baith cannell bayne and schuldir blaid in twa, Throuch the myd cost the gud suerd gert he ga. 1572–3 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. I. 205 Stevin Urde..straik the said Jonet upoun hir schulder blaid with the kavill of ane mylne. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iii. 73 Oh good sir, softly, good sir: I feare (sir) my shoulder-blade is out. 1763 ‘T. Insulanus’ Treat. Second Sight 77 There is another kind of divination, by looking in the shoulder-blade of a sheep, goat, &c. as in a book. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes ii. 105 Mahomet's followers found the Koran..as it had been written down at first promulgation; much of it, they say, on shoulder-blades of mutton. 1875 Sir W. Turner in Encycl. Brit. I. 826/2 The Scapula, or Shoulder Blade..lies at the upper and back part of the wall of the chest, reaching from the second to the seventh rib. b. transferred. ΚΠ 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 65 [Bees] haue 4. wings..growing to their shoulder-blades. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxxv. 662 I propose calling these pieces by names..appropriated to the arm in the higher vertebrate animals: thus..I call the whole fore-leg the brachium or arm, and..the trochanter [becomes] the scapula or shoulder-blade. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > as lemmasshoulder blade a. A broad flattened bone or part of a bone, as the cheek blades, jaw-blades; esp. the flat, triangular-shaped bone of the shoulder called the shoulder blade or blade-bone, the scapula; also the corresponding bone of the fore leg of animals. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > constituent materials > [noun] > shoulder-blade shoulder bladea1300 blade-bone1845 the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bony support for limbs > shoulder-girdle > [noun] > shoulder bone shoulder bladea1300 shoulder bladea1300 shoulder-bonec1320 spauld-bonec1400 omoplate?a1425 scapple1578 scapula1578 shield-bonec1600 spade-bone1612 plate-bonea1665 speal-bone1771 blade-bone1845 a1300 Havelok 2644 Bi the shudre-blade The sharpe swerd let wade. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xxvi. 135 Sholder blades ben..hight blades for they ben shape as a brode swerde. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Tobit vi. 3 Take him by the cheke blade, and drawe him to the. 1600 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliad v. 577 Atrides' lance did gore Pylemens shoulder in the blade. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 3 Nor put up blow, but that which laid Right Worshipfull on shoulder-blade. 1878 J. Marshall Anat. Artists 17 The two scapulæ, shoulder bones, or blade-bones. < n.a1300 as lemmas |
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