单词 | skirret |
释义 | skirretn.1 1. a. A perennial umbelliferous plant, Sium sisarum, a species of water parsnip, formerly much cultivated in Europe for its esculent tubers; the root of this plant. In one or two 15th cent. glossaries skyrwyt renders Latin eruca, probably in error. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > parsnip skirret1338 parsnipc1390 neep1789 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > other root vegetables skirret1338 pease earthnut1548 skirret-root1565 rampion1573 Tragopogon1578 oca1604 tuckahoe1612 groundnut1636 sedge-root1648 breadroot1756 tannia1756 rush nut1783 wapato1796 cous1806 vegetable oyster1806 prairie turnip1811 prairie potato1828 murnong1836 Tartarian bread1836 biscuitroot1837 yam-bean1864 tiger-nut1887 wasabi1903 ramp1946 sunchoke1955 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > parsnip skirret1338 parsnipc1390 mype1597 neep1789 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > water-parsnip or skirret skirret1338 siser1548 α. β. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. G.iijv Fuchsius rekoneth that our skyrwort, or skyrwit is a kynde of siser. Persnepes, and skirwortes are commune in Englande.1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 605 Skirwurtes are hoate and drie in the seconde degree.1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. xl. 78/1 Pomfret..brings forth Liquorice and great plentie of Skiriworts.1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique Skirret or Skirwort.γ. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 40 Herbes & rootes, for sallets & sawce... Skirrets.1608 G. Markham & L. Machin Dumbe Knight i. sig. B4 Roasted potatoes, or boild skerrets are your onley lofty dishes.1699 J. Evelyn Acetaria 64 Skirrets..exceedingly nourishing, wholsome and delicate.1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 250 Skirrets, useful in bloody Urine, and Spitting of Blood.1772 A. Hunter et al. Georgical Ess. (new ed.) IV. i. 13 Half a pound of skirrets an ounce and a half of pure sugar.1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 33 The Skirret... A native of China, with the root composed of fleshy tubers..growing together something like a dahlia root.attributive.1727 E. Smith Compl. Housewife 115 (heading) To make a Skirret Pie.1840 W. H. Ainsworth Tower of London (1864) 85 A skirret pasty; an apple tansy; and a prodigious marrow pudding.1338 in W. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum (1846) II. 585/1 In flore, jd. In skirwhittes, jd. a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 33 Pastinaca, skirwhite. a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 12 Baucea, skirwhit. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 458/1 Skyrwyt, herbe or rote. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 271/1 Skyrwyt, an herbe. 1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 600 Skirwits: The roots boiled, are good for the stomacke. 1631 tr. J. A. Comenius Porta Linguarum Reserata xii. §126 A rape.., the navew, a carrot, a skirwike roote. b. With distinctive premodifiers, as garden, wild; also applied to other species of Sium (quots. 17961, 17962). ΚΠ c1450 Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 30 Carui agreste, wylde~schirewyt. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Chervis sauvages, wild Skirwike. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 41 To come more particularly to the garden Skirwort. 1714 Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 42 Garden Skirrets. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 299 Sium latifolium.., Broad-leaved Skerrett. Great Water Parsnep. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 299 S. angustifolium.., Upright Water Parsnep. Narrow-leaved Skerret. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > potato > potato plant potato1597 skirret of Peru1597 Irish potato1664 white potato1723 Virginian potato1731 potato plant1744 potato vine1750 lady's finger1827 peach-blow1861 Chilean potato1870 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 780 This plant which is called of some Sisarum Peruuianum, or Skyrrits of Peru, is generally of vs called Potatus or Potatoes. 2. skirret-root n. the edible root of the plant Sium sisarum, or, more frequently, the plant itself. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > other root vegetables skirret1338 pease earthnut1548 skirret-root1565 rampion1573 Tragopogon1578 oca1604 tuckahoe1612 groundnut1636 sedge-root1648 breadroot1756 tannia1756 rush nut1783 wapato1796 cous1806 vegetable oyster1806 prairie turnip1811 prairie potato1828 murnong1836 Tartarian bread1836 biscuitroot1837 yam-bean1864 tiger-nut1887 wasabi1903 ramp1946 sunchoke1955 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > other root vegetables or plants producing them skirret-root1565 Spanish nut1597 oca1604 tuckahoe1612 sisyrinchium1629 sedge-root1648 arrowroot1681 breadroot1756 tannia1756 rush nut1783 wapato1796 cous1806 prairie turnip1811 prairie potato1828 native potato1833 murnong1836 Tartarian bread1836 biscuitroot1837 tobacco-root1845 amadumbi1851 chufa1860 yam-bean1864 parsnip chervil1866 tiger-nut1887 yautia1899 wasabi1903 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Siser One kinde of it is the roote that is called Skirwike rootes. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xix. v. 18 The Skirwirt root or white Parsnip, (which indeed would be written among other Physicke plants). 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxiii. 228 Skirret~roots were so sweet & delicate in ancient times, that [etc.]. 1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ II. at Siser The skirret root. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). skirretn.2 Freemasonry. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for marking out work > [noun] > others jointing-rule1700 tracing-pin1712 pitch-board1733 skirret1825 odontograph1838 bevelling-board1850 fencing-gauge1874 tingle1886 shadow-stick1900 1825 Republican 29 July 123 The skirret is an implement which acts on a centre pin, from whence a centre line is drawn, chalked and struck, to mark out the ground for the foundation of the intended structure. 1853 G. Oliver Dict. Symb. Masonry 339 The skirret acting on a centre pin is used to mark out the ground of a new building. As the skirret has a chalked line attached to it [etc.]. 1877 K. R. H. Mackenzie Royal Masonic Cycl. 677 Skirret.—One of the working tools of a Master Mason. It is an instrument usually made of wood, shaped like the letter T, acting on a centre-pin. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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