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单词 sloe-thorn
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sloe-thornn.

Forms: (see quots.); also 1800s northern slaa-, Scottish slae-.
Etymology: < sloe n. + thorn n. Compare Middle Dutch and Dutch sleedorn, Middle Low German and Middle High German slêdorn, German schleh-, †schlee-, †schleh(e)ndorn, Danish slaaentorn.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsloe-thorn.
The blackthorn. Cf. sloe n. 2.
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c725 Corpus Gloss. N 119 Nigra spina, slaghðorn.
c725 Corpus Gloss. S 474 Spina nigra, slahðorn.
c1000 Saxon Leechd. II. 86 Wice, ac, slahþorn, bircean, elebeam.
c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 163 Le fourder, slo-thorne.
c1450 MS. Sloane 4 f. 80 The kanker yt bredyth yn the Slo~thorne.
1615 R. Brathwait Loves Labyrinth 52 in Strappado Sad Philomela..Sung with a pricking slothorne at her brest.
1825 W. Scott Betrothed vii, in Tales Crusaders II. 147 Small eminences..overgrown with hazel, sloe-thorn, and other dwarf shrubs.
1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 404 A dreary moor, bristling with furze and sloe-thorn.
attributive.c1000 Saxon Leechd. II. 98 Nim þonne apuldor rinde,..slahþorn rinde, & wir rinde.1807 J. Grahame Poems 48 He hid beneath the milk-white sloe-thorn spray.1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. iii. 37 She..had in her hand a goodly sloe-thorn cudgel.
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