单词 | skeel |
释义 | skeeln. Now dialect. 1. A wooden bucket, pail, tub, or similar vessel used for some domestic purpose, chiefly for holding milk or water, and usually having a handle or handles formed by staves rising above the rim.In early use frequently in inventories and similar documents; now only dialect, chiefly Northern and West Midland.The precise purpose for which a skeel is used varies in different localities, and this is occasionally denoted by a defining word prefixed, as bread skeel, butter skeel, dough skeel, washing skeel. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > bucket or pail > [noun] stopc725 amberOE skeelc1330 pail1341 bucketa1382 stoup1397 eshin1547 whinnock1555 bowk1663 cruck1688 noggin1843 c1330 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 518 In Erthening', Cheseclathe, Meles, et Skeles,..3s. 2d. 1387–8 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 314 In 3 skelys empt. pro lacte, 9d. 1459 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 89 j caldrun, ij skelez, j kyrn. 1483 Cath. Angl. 341/2 Skele, emicadium. a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 208 Fische wyvis cryis, ‘Fy!’, and castis doun skillis and skeilis. 1570 in J. Raine Depositions Courts Durham (1845) 186 This examinate brought water in a skeill to be maid in holly water. 1629 in J. R. Walbran Mem. Abbey St. Mary of Fountains (1863) I. 365 The greater milkinge skeele, one stone trough. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 151 A little two gallon skeele to fetch water in. 1766 Museum Rusticum 6 169 She must either quit her place, or break the skeel; the vessel in which water is brought from the well. 1789 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Glocestershire I. 269 Skeels..are broad shallow vessels; principally for the purpose of setting milk in. 1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Skiel, a beer-cooler, used in brewing. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 1008 Part of the butter is spread on the bottom of another bason or skeel. 1864 A. Leighton Myst. Legends Edinb. (1886) 3 Mrs. Hyslop's head was over the skeil, wherein lay one of the linen shirts of Mr. Dallas. 2. Coal Mining. (See quot. 1883.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > equipment for lowering or raising miners or material > for lowering material skeel1883 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 224 Skeel, a kind of cage in which coals are lowered down the cuts or staples. Derivatives ˈskeelful n. a bucketful, pailful. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills a receptacle > a bucket or pail bucketful1564 skeelful1575 stoupful1590 pailful1591 pail1592 bucketload1842 1575–6 in J. Raine Depositions Courts Durham (1845) 296 This examinate had bein at St. Oswald's well for a skeil full of wayter. 1863 J. P. Robson Songs Bards of Tyne 237 But wi' skeelfuls o' wetter he brightened his jaw. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1330 |
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