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单词 staffordshire
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Staffordshiren.

/ˈstafədʃə/
Etymology: < the name of Staffordshire, a county of England.
1. attributive.
a. Staffordshire bull terrier n. a small stocky terrier of the breed so called, first developed by crossing bulldogs and terriers, characterized by a fawn, blue, or brindle coat, often with white markings, and a short, broad head with dropped ears.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > terrier > [noun] > bull-terrier
bull terrier1847
Boston terrier1894
Staffordshire bull terrier1901
Staffordshire1903
1901 Our Dogs 13 July 47/2 (advt.) Old Staffordshire red brindled Bull-Terrier Dog Pup, five weeks, makes 20lbs.
1904 Our Dogs 2 Jan. 24/2 (advt.) Grand Litter Staffordshire Bull-terrier Pups, gamest strain.
1950 A. C. Smith Dogs since 1900 xi. 174 In 1935 the Staffordshire Bull Terrier Club was founded.
1977 J. Wambaugh Black Marble (1978) viii. 126 Pattie Mae didn't do so well with the Staffordshire bull terrier.
b. Staffordshire coke n. see quots.
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1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. iv. 99 Of this kind is the Staffordshire coke, which may be obtained at various wharfs on the canals near London.
c. Staffordshire cone n. a kind of pyrometric cone.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > pottery manufacturing equipment > [noun] > pyrometric cone
pyrometric cone1896
Staffordshire cone1967
1967 M. Chandler Ceramics in Mod. World i. 38 Cones used in continental Europe are still known as Seger cones, the slightly modified cones used in America are called Orton cones, and those used in England—also slightly modified—are called Staffordshire cones.
1977 Harrison Mayer Ltd. Catal. 70/1 Staffordshire Cones..are slender, Trihedral pyramids made of ceramic materials and are so constituted as to deform when subjected to elevated temperature for a period of time.
1977 Harrison Mayer Ltd. Catal. 70/1Staffordshire Cones’, have been manufactured in England for nearly fifty years.
d. Staffordshire slack n. see quot.
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1869 S. V. J. Day Puddling 4 in W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools The thick coal called ‘Staffordshire slack’.
e. Staffordshire ware n. earthenware and porcelain made in Staffordshire, hence Staffordshire warehouseman.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > English pottery
Staffordshire ware1765
Staffordshire1774
crouch-ware1817
Newcastle1817
Mocha1837
Castleford1863
Jackfield ware1866
Plymouth earthenware1878
Wrotham1884
Jackfield1892
Ruskin1903
Sunderland lustre1903
Poole pottery1924
1765 J. Wedgwood Let. 17 June in Sel. Lett. (1965) 34 An order from St. James's for a service of Staffordshire ware.
1774 H. Walpole Descr. Villa Strawberry-Hill 20 Four green leaves of Staffordshire-ware.
1813 Examiner 22 Feb. 119/1 J. Clarke, Tottenham-court-road, Staffordshire warehouse~man.
1857 J. Marryat Hist. Pott. & Porc. (ed. 2) 149 The earliest specimens extant of the Staffordshire ware are the ‘Butter-pots’, and the Tygs or Tiggs.
f. Staffordshire knot n. [? error for Stafford knot] (a) ‘a knot used to ligature the pedicle in ovariotomy’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1898); (b) also, a Stafford knot or half-hitch used as a craftsman's device or motif.
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society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol > specific symbols > others
Samian letter1616
A1651
Tetragrammaton1656
arrow1744
arrowhead1832
wind1847
scarlet letter1850
sun wheel1865
sacred axe1866
rising sun1868
crow's foot1871
Easter rabbit1881
hexagram1882
sun sign1882
Easter bunny1900
Staffordshire knot1908
sinsigna1914
tectiform1921
padma1954
smiley face1957
happy face1971
lexigram1973
emoticon1988
smiley1989
society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > mark of identification > [noun] > mark identifying goods > specific
Staffordshire knot1908
1908 B. W. Watson Old Silver Platers & their Marks 9/2 (table) 1808 Feb. 4 Josh Gibbs... Staffordshire Knott.
1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 280 The figures represented by [Corn] Dollies cover a considerable variety... We may name a few... The Horn of Plenty,..the Staffordshire Knot, [etc.].
1971 Vogue 15 Oct. p. ls ii. (advt.) The strikingly unusual motif features Staffordshire knots.
2. elliptical.
a. = Staffordshire ware n. at sense 1e. Also n. plural = Staffordshire bricks.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > English pottery
Staffordshire ware1765
Staffordshire1774
crouch-ware1817
Newcastle1817
Mocha1837
Castleford1863
Jackfield ware1866
Plymouth earthenware1878
Wrotham1884
Jackfield1892
Ruskin1903
Sunderland lustre1903
Poole pottery1924
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
1770 H. Walpole Let. 6 May (1967) XXIII. 211 We have Etruscan vases, make of earthen ware in Staffordshire, from two to five guineas.]
1774 H. Walpole Descr. Villa Strawberry-Hill 110 A Staffordshire Etruscan vase.
1866 Queen Victoria Let. 16 May in Your Dear Letter (1971) 75 I send her a tea-set..which I hope she will often use. It is Staffordshire.
1898 Daily News 8 Feb. 3/5 Little stacks of various kinds of bricks—from London stocks to Staffordshires.
1908 Daily Report 25 Aug. 8/3 The ‘Fitz-Gerald’ sale of Staffordshire ware..came as a revelation, both as to the quality of old Staffordshire and the prices it now obtains.
b. = Staffordshire bull terrier n. at sense 1a.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > terrier > [noun] > bull-terrier
bull terrier1847
Boston terrier1894
Staffordshire bull terrier1901
Staffordshire1903
1903 Our Dogs 27 June 944/1 (advt.) Pure-bred Staffordshire Bitch, good guard, and very game.
1943 H. N. Beilby Staffordshire Bull Terrier i. 3 The Staffordshire will, by his intelligence and general usefulness, make a very strong appeal.
1968 H. Harmar Chihuahua Guide 237 Filled-up face, one in which the cheek muscles are well developed, such as in the Staffordshire.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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