单词 | smoot |
释义 | smootn.1 northern dialect. A hole or opening at the foot of a wall, the bottom of a fence or hedge, etc., esp. one allowing the passage of hares, rabbits, or sheep; a narrow passage or entrance in a beehive. (Cf. smoot-hole n.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [noun] > beehive > parts of moutha1398 stool?1523 skirt1555 hackle1609 smoot1615 imp1618 bolster1623 cop1623 underlaya1642 hack1658 tee-hole1669 frame1673 hood1686 alighting board1780 body box1823 superhive1847 super1855 quilt1870 queen excluder1881 bar-super1884 brood box1888 the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > opening or break in continuity > in a wall, hedge, fence, dike, etc. > allowing passage of an animal smoot1615 creep1819 smoot-holea1828 1615 in Trans. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archæol. Soc. (1906) 3 154 Thomas Langhorne shall make his Smoughts three quarters high and three quarters broad to receive the water which cometh down by the Righouse. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 65 Then are yow to sette downe the hive on the sieve, leavinge an open smoute for them to goe in just towards the south, and to cover the backside of the hive..on all sides but onely wheare yow make your smoute. 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 353 Smoot, a hare muce; or any small gap or hole in the bottom of a hedge. 1891 J. C. Atkinson Forty Years Moorland Parish 84 The hare had run through the smout into Nanny's garth. 1893 J. Watson Confess. Poacher 58 I scanned the smoots and gates through which she [a hare] passed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020). smootn.2 Printing slang. (See quot. 1888.) ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printer > [noun] > one who does casual work smoot1888 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 127 Smout, a compositor who seeks odd jobs in various houses. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020). smootv.1 northern dialect. intransitive. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 353 To Smoot, to creep under or through, as a hare or sheep through a hedge. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 160 A young man is said to smoot after a girl when he dares not appear openly in the courtship. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2020). smootv.2 Printing slang. intransitive. To do casual work in a printing-house where one is not regularly employed (see quots.). †Also const. on (a firm). ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing specific type of work > print specific type of work [verb (intransitive)] > casual work smoot1683 grass1879 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] sulec897 smitOE soil1297 besoila1300 bysulpc1400 smudgec1430 dauba1450 smirch1495 smotter1513 suddle1513 smada1525 coinquinatea1529 puddle1535 moil1575 smut1587 sud1593 sully1601 coninquinate1609 smirch1615 smutcha1616 beslurry1627 besullya1645 smoot1683 besmircha1700 be-smutch1832 guggle1866 dirten1906 society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > pollute or defile afileeOE awemOE filec1175 wemc1175 soila1250 foulc1330 defoula1340 bleckc1380 blemishc1380 pollutea1382 tache1390 sulpa1400 vilec1400 spota1413 stain1446 defilec1450 violate1490 tan1530 smear1549 beray1576 moil1596 discolour1598 smut1601 bespurtle1604 sullya1616 commaculatec1616 decolour?c1622 collutulate1623 deturpate1623 berust1631 smutch1640 discolorate1651 smoot1683 tarnish1695 tar1817 dirten1987 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 360 If a Journey-man Smout more or less on another Printing House. Derivatives ˈsmooting n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing specific type of work > [noun] > casual work smooting1683 grassing1875 grass1888 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. Dict. 390 Workmen when..out of constant Work, do sometimes accept of a Day or twos Work..at another Printing-house: this By-work they call Smouting. [Hence in Holme and Luckombe.] 1757 Franklin in Lockwood Amer. Dict. Printing (1894) 513 If a fat old fellow should come to your printing-house and request a little smouting. 1865 C. Knight Shadows Old Booksellers 82 Gent..got no regular employment, but laboured here and there without settlement, upon what was called ‘smouting work’. 1892 J. Southward Pract. Printing (ed. 4) 569 ‘Smooting.’—No member of the [Typographical] Association is permitted to work for any other employer than the one by whom he is engaged.., except in case of accident... Transgression of this rule is called ‘smooting’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.11615n.21888v.11788v.21683 |
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