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单词 spean
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speann.1

/spiːn/
Forms: α. 1500s–1600s speane, 1500s–1600s, 1800s spean. β. 1500s– spene, 1700s–1800s speen, 1800s spen.
Etymology: < Middle Dutch or Middle Low German spene (Dutch and Flemish speen , West Frisian spien , Low German spene , späne ), = Old Norse speni (Middle Swedish spene , späne , etc.; Norwegian, Swedish, obsolete Danish spene ), related to Old English spana , spona : see spane v.
Now dialect.
1. Swelling of the uvula. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of mouth > [noun] > disorders of uvula
spean1527
uvula1541
falling down of the palate1664
uvulitis1842
1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Civ It is also good to be gargoled agaynste vuala that is the spene in the strote.
2. A teat or nipple, esp. of a cow.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > substance or secretion and excretion > [noun] > nipple
spean1573
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > breast or breasts (of woman) > [noun] > nipple
papc1175
teat?a1200
pap-head?a1425
big?a1439
wartc1440
teat headc1500
nipplec1510
spin1525
dug1530
spean1573
bud1593
milk papa1616
niplet1648
dud1679
mamilla1684
duddlea1708
diddy1788
tittya1825
knob1941
nip1970
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > (miscellaneous) parts of > udder > parts of
spean1573
whetstone1887
α.
1573 T. Twyne tr. Virgil in T. Phaer & T. Twyne tr. Virgil Whole .xii. Bks. Æneidos xi. Ii ij b To her tendre lippes in milkinge, downe their speanes he raught.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 38 It [sc. a bear] hath also foure speanes to her Paps.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 126 The Hinde hath vdders betwixt her thighes with foure speanes like a cow.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 138 The females..haue vnderneath their bellies great paps, with many speanes to sucke at.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 171/2 The Speanes, or the Paps, the four Dugs, by which the Milk is drawn from the Udder.
β. 1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 76 A Seen [1691 Speen] or spene: a cows pappe, Kent. [Hence in Worlidge (1681), Phillips, etc.]c1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms (1876) Speen, the teat of a cow.1832 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. (ed. 2) 118 The maid..milks two speens, while the calf sucks the other two.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

speann.2

/spiːn/
Forms: Also spane, spen(e, speen.
Etymology: Of obscure origin.
southern dialect.
1. A prong of a fork.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > digging or lifting tools > [noun] > fork > prong of fork
grain1486
forket1583
graininga1642
fork1677
prong1697
spear1742
spean1777
1777–8 R. Wight Horæ Subsecivæ (MS Bodl. Eng. lang. d.66) 401 [Devon] Spanes...The Prongs of a Peek, a Hay Fork, or Dung Fork.
1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 ii. 550 On stiff soils..the flatter and broader forks or speens are best.
1889 R. Jefferies Field & Hedgerow 79 A two-spean spud, or Canterbury hoe, with points instead of a broad blade.
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2. A bar or rail of a gate.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

speanv.

Brit. /spiːn/, U.S. /spin/, Scottish English /spin/
Forms: 1500s speane, 1500s, 1700s–1800s spean (1700s speean, 1800s spene).
Etymology: Later form of spane v., or independently < Middle Dutch or Middle Low German spenen (Dutch and Flemish spenen , Low German spenen , spänen ), = Middle High German spenen (German dialect spänen ), < spene spean n.1
Scottish and northern dialect.
1.
a. transitive. To wean, in literal and figurative senses.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > supply with food [verb (intransitive)] > wean
spean1595
the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feed or nourish [verb (transitive)] > wean
weanc960
spanea1340
spean1595
ablactate1754
1595 A. Duncan Appendix Etymologiae: Index in Latinae Grammaticae Depello, to put away, to speane: lacte depellere.
1599 A. Hume Christian Precepts in Hymnes sig. K1 v Think not that thou art sufficiently mortified, and spained from the world.
1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 96 Spain, or spean, to wean.
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 354 To Speean.., to wean, as calves or pigs.
1808– in Sc. and northern dial. glossaries and texts.
1831 P. Sellar County of Sutherland 75 in Farm-rep. The fields..not being eaten bare by the sheep, the scythe is passed over them as soon as the lambs have been speaned.
1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xxix. 210 The vera winter that Benjie was spean't.
absolute.1831 P. Sellar County of Sutherland 79 in Farm-rep. The sale ewe lot..which are then brought in to lamb, and, consequently, to spean early.
b. In phrases implying the creation of extreme disgust, repression, etc.
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the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being horrible > horrible [phrase]
spean1790
the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > expressing extreme disgust or violent resentment [phrase] > very disgusting or frightening
spean1790
1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 160 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 562 But wither'd beldams, auld and droll, Rigwoodie hags wad spean a foal.
1826 W. Scott Let. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1839) I. 171 One of the ugliest countenances.., enough as we say to spean weans.
1895 R. B. Cunninghame Graham Notes Menteith i. 13 Slate-roofed cottages,..hideous enough to spean a bairn.
2. (See quot. 1829 and spane v. 2.)
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [verb (intransitive)] > grow or produce parts (of plants)
grain1390
ear1442
spindle1577
to run to straw1660
tassel out1757
spean1829
spane1843
silk1878
1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (new ed.) Young corn is said to be speaned, when the milky..juice of its grain is exhausted, and it is obliged to depend on the nutriment collected by its own roots.

Derivatives

ˈspeaning n. (also attributive in speaning brash, speaning time; cf. spaning n. Compounds 1).
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > feeding > feeding offspring > weaning
weaning1382
spaningc1440
speaning1831
the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > associated with particular type of plant > crop or food plant
blast1750
speaning brash1872
reclamation disease1937
1831 P. Sellar County of Sutherland 75 in Farm-rep. That the aftermath may be, at speaning time, open to recruit the weakset [sic] and worst fed lambs.
1831 P. Sellar County of Sutherland 78 in Farm-rep. The speaning was performed nearly a fortnight sooner than had been formerly practised.
1872 H. Macmillan True Vine iii. 122 After a while the field of emerald loveliness looks suddenly sere and yellow... This remarkable change is caused by what the farmers call the ‘speanin brash’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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