单词 | stafford |
释义 | Staffordn. a. Stafford blue n. some kind of blue cloth. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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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