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单词 stafford
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Staffordn.

Brit. /ˈstafəd/, U.S. /ˈstæfərd/
Etymology: < the name of Stafford, a town in England (the county town of Staffordshire); also a surname derived from this. Also used for Staffordshire n.
a. Stafford blue n. some kind of blue cloth.
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a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. iii. 34 Thou were worthi be cled In Stafford blew, For thou art alway adred.
b. Stafford knot n. (also Stafford's knot) Heraldry a knot used as a badge of the Stafford family; hence, a form of knot resembling this.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > other ornamental objects
Stafford knot1552
cocked hat1835
bullen-nail1842
street jewellery1851
overdoor1873
Russian Easter egg1881
wally dug1904
society > communication > indication > insignia > [noun] > specific emblems, badges, or cognizances > of noble houses
ragged staff1397
red rose1415
rosea1460
white rosea1460
Stafford knot1552
white horse1814
1552 in W. Page Inventories Church Goods York, Durham & Northumberland (1897) 49 iij sewtes of vestmentes with Stafforde knotes.
1828–40 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. Stafford Knot, a badge used by the family of Stafford.
1847 H. Gough Gloss. Terms Brit. Heraldry 197 Stafford's Knot.
1868 M. E. C. Walcott Sacred Archæol. 507 A true-love-knot..was the well-known Stafford knot.
c. Stafford law n. Obsolete ‘club law’, with pun on staff; so †Stafford court.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > violent treatment or force
strong handOE
strengthOE
strenghc1300
violencec1300
mightc1325
stuntisea1327
forcea1340
enforcing138.
forcinga1382
forcenessc1400
violation?c1500
efforce1549
enforcement1577
Stafford law1589
vexation1605
club-law1612
aspertee1660
physical force1716
strong arm1836
savaging1858
muscle1879
strong-arming1906
1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper Aiij I threatned him with blowes, and to deale by stafford law.
1599 N. Breton Wil of Wit (Grosart) 29/1 And among souldiours Stafford law, martiall law, killing or hanging is soone learned.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Festin, Il a esté au festin de Martin baston He hath had a triall in Stafford Court.
1615 W. Bedwell in tr. Mohammedis Imposturæ i. §26 (margin) The Alkoran of Mohammed established by Stafford law.
a1662 J. Taylor Most Learned Speech M. Corbet 31 July 1647 (?1681) 5 We have unlawfully erected Marshall Law, Club Law, Stafford Law, and such lawless Laws as make most for Treason.
d. Stafford brick n. (see quot. 1908).
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > brick > [noun] > types of
white brick1468
red brick1587
clinker1659
clinkerc1660
stock-brick1683
Windsor brick1702
grey stock1726
stockc1738
red stock1748
firebrick1749
Welsh lump1798
malm1811
cutting-brick1815
pecking1819
blue brick1823
malm brick1824
Windsor1841
cutter1842
grizzle1843
shuff1843
picking1850
Woolpit brick1887
Hollander1897
Staffordshire1898
Stafford brick1908
misfire1923
klompie1926
1908 Animal Managem. (War Office) 48 ‘Candy’, ‘blue Stafford’, ‘Dutch’, and ‘adamantine clinkers’ being the names of familiar varieties [of vitrified bricks].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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