单词 | spiller |
释义 | spillern.1 One who sheds or spills; esp. a shedder of blood. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > massacrer or slaughterer > [noun] > bloodshedder shedderc1388 bloodsheddera1425 spiller1530 bloodsucker1539 bloodletter1674 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [noun] > action of scattering or becoming scattered > one who or that which scatters spreader?c1475 spiller1530 scatterer1535 disseminator1777 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 266/2 Schedar, a spyller, respandevr. 1592 W. Wyrley Capitall de Buz in True Vse Armorie 137 Blouds wilfull spiller seld doth mercie finde. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Respandeur A shedder, a spiller. 1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. at Blood A spiller of Bloud, een bloed-storter. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Shedder A spiller; one who sheds. 1775– in J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. ; and later Dicts. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 9 Feb. 2/1 A mighty hunter, a spiller of life-blood. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). spillern.2 Obsolete exc. archaic. A branchlet on a deer's horn. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun] > body and parts > antler > branch > on hind part of espelers1486 speller1575 spiller1590 1590 T. Cokayne Treat. Hunting D j Some [bucks]..are plaine palmed without any aduauncers, with long spillers out behinde. 1660 J. Howell Θηρολογια 62 Such silly coxcombs..deserve to wear such branch'd horns, such spilters [sic] and trochings on their heads, as that goodly Stagg bears. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Spillers, the small Branches shooting out from the flat Parts of a Buck's Horn at the Top. 1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom IV. 85 Additional advancers and spillers, or snags on the anterior or posterior parts of the palm. 1864 Reader 23 Jan. 112/3 The spillers into which the palm divides were directed exteriorly, as in the reindeer and the fallow-deer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2021). spillern.3 Chiefly Cornish dialect, Irish English, and North American. 1. A long fishing-line provided with a number of hooks; a trawl-line. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fishing-line > [noun] > trawl-line or set line boulter1602 spiller1602 bulter1769 trot-line1826 spillet1832 bultow1858 trot1858 trawl1864 set line1865 trawl-line1867 outline1890 trat-line1894 outlier1904 trout-line1912 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 31 In harbor they are taken mostly by Spillers made of a cord..to which diuers lesser and shorter are tyed at a little distance, and to each of these a hooke is fastened with bayt. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 31v This Spiller they sincke in the Sea. 1836 1st Rep. Irish Fisheries 151 The line and spillards are the modes of fishing chiefly practised. 1851 Voy. Mauritius iv. 160 A line some hundred yards in length, from which depend shorter lines, like an Irish ‘spiller’. 1875 Zoologist 10 4500 A specimen of the torpedo..caught on spillers (hook and line)..near Lamorna [in Cornwall]. 2. ‘In the mackerel-fishery, a seine inserted into a larger seine to take out the fish.’ Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > seine-net > small net inside tuck-net1520 tuck1602 tuck-seine1825 spiller1884 1884 Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 27. 998 Mackerel pocket or spiller... The pocket was introduced into the mackerel-seine fishery in 1878 for holding the surplus catch which would otherwise spoil before being cleaned and salted. a1891 in Nova Scotian use ( Cent. Dict. ). 1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Sept. 4/1 Supplementing the spring and autumn mackerel fishery by line and spiller seine and trammel with ordinary trawlings. Derivatives spiller v. (intransitive) to fish with spillers. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (intransitive)] > fish with hook > with number of hooks scratch1659 spiller1836 otter1861 paternoster1891 1836 1st Rep. Irish Fisheries 151 Long line fishing, which is a kind of spillarding, is generally practised in hookers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). spillern.4 = spill n.1 2a. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > material for igniting > [noun] > match, spill, or taper for lighting wax tapera1398 match1519 brimstone match1594 card match1654 spunk1755 light1787 spill1821 lighter1828 candle-paper1829 fidibus1829 Promethean1829 sulphur-match1830 pipelight1842 candle-lighter1855 kitchen match1862 spiller1936 1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind 71 Pork took a long spiller from the mantelpiece, lit it from the lamp flame and went into the hall. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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