单词 | spicket |
释义 | spicketn.1 Now chiefly dialect and U.S. 1. a. A spigot. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > closure for a vessel, tube, etc. > spigot dossil1297 spigot1383 spicket14.. tap-staff14.. faucetc1430 dottle1440 tap-tree1483 tapon1543 forcehead1598 spiddock1629 spile1707 vent-peg1707 pale1726 spile-pega1825 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 573 Clipsedra, a spyket. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 626 Clepsidra, spykkett. 1619 Pasquils Palinodia sig. C3v Into the vault the Iaylor downe doth creepe, Where how he deales with bung-holes and with spickets I cannot tell. 1626 J. Horsey Trav. in S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 4) 991 [There were] strange portraytures..made artificially of Sugar..with spickets in their bellies fille some with sucke. a1635 T. Randolph Poems (1652) 16 His Eyes look like two Tunnels, his Nose like a Fausset with the Spicket out. 1739 Brome in J. Walker Lett. Eminent Persons (1813) II. 119 He..ran his fingers into the orifices, like spickets, of the arteries, and then knockt for his surgeon. 1767 H. Glasse Art of Cookery (new ed.) App. 350 Put them into a large vessel of wood or stone, with a spicket in it. 1804 A. Duncan Mariner's Chron. IV. 72 The spicket I perceived out of the cask, and the liquor running about. 1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. xxxi I guess I'll whip out of the bung while he's a lookin arter the spicket. 1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs II. 169 The Indian..took a glass and turned on the spicket. b. In allusive use. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] drink1042 liquor1340 bousea1350 cidera1382 dwale1393 sicera1400 barrelc1400 strong drinkc1405 watera1475 swig1548 tipple1581 amber1598 tickle-brain1598 malt pie1599 swill1602 spicket1615 lap1618 John Barleycornc1625 pottle1632 upsy Englisha1640 upsy Friese1648 tipplage1653 heartsease1668 fuddle1680 rosin1691 tea1693 suck1699 guzzlea1704 alcohol1742 the right stuff1748 intoxicant1757 lush1790 tear-brain1796 demon1799 rum1799 poison1805 fogram1808 swizzle1813 gatter1818 wine(s) and spirit(s)1819 mother's milkc1821 skink1823 alcoholics1832 jough1834 alky1844 waipiro1845 medicine1847 stimulant1848 booze1859 tiddly1859 neck oil1860 lotion1864 shrab1867 nose paint1880 fixing1882 wet1894 rabbit1895 shicker1900 jollop1920 mule1920 giggle-water1929 rookus juice1929 River Ouse1931 juice1932 lunatic soup1933 wallop1933 skimish1936 sauce1940 turps1945 grog1946 joy juice1960 1615 J. Day Festivals 94 They..spend their Birth right, and Patrimonies vpon the Spicket. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. vi. 102 The Brethren of the Spicket..lay downe for a fundamentall, that there is no living without Liquids. 2. A water-tap. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > tap tapc1050 faucet?a1400 cockc1483 spigot1530 vice1530 water cock1585 quill1611 spicket1888 1888 J. Pennell & E. R. Pennell Sent. Journey 60 The waiter pointed to a small spicket and a handkerchief of a towel. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † spicketn.2 dialect. Obsolete. rare. (See quot. 1729.) ΚΠ 1729 Philos. Trans. 1727–8 (Royal Soc.) 35 573 The Owners [in Essex] are sure to choose for their own Use the..fattest [crocus] Roots, but above all, they reject the longish pointed ones, which they call Spickets or Spickards. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.114..n.21729 |
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