单词 | springle |
释义 | springlen.1 Chiefly English regional (south-western) and Welsh English (south-western). Now rare. A snare used to catch birds or other small game, consisting of a flexible switch attached to a noose in which the animal is caught when the trap is sprung (cf. springe n. 1). Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] grinc825 trapa1000 snarea1100 swikea1100 granea1250 springec1275 gina1300 gnarea1325 stringc1325 trebuchet1362 latch?a1366 leashc1374 snarlc1380 foot gina1382 foot-grina1382 traina1393 sinewa1400 snatcha1400 foot trapa1425 haucepyc1425 slingc1425 engine1481 swar1488 frame1509 brakea1529 fang1535 fall trap1570 spring1578 box-trapa1589 spring trapa1589 sprint1599 noosec1600 springle1602 springe1607 toil1607 plage1608 deadfall1631 puppy snatch1650 snickle1681 steel trap1735 figure (of) four1743 gun-trap1749 stamp1788 stell1801 springer1813 sprent1822 livetrap1823 snaphance1831 catch pole1838 twitch-up1841 basket-trap1866 pole trap1879 steel fall1895 tread-trap1952 conibear trap1957 conibear1958 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 25 They [sc. woodcocks] arriue first on the North-coast, where almost euerie hedge serueth for a Roade, and euerie plashoote for Springles to take them. 1654 R. Vilvain Theoremata Theologica Suppl. f. 230 Men may catch..Woodcocks in Springals. a1731 D. Defoe Remark. Passage Apparition in Wks. (1841) XIX. 259 In the springle their courtship had laid for me. 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. ix. 103 The..netting of the woodcocks, and the springles to be minded in the garden. 1878 A. M. Browne Pract. Taxidermy ii. 18 Sometimes this trap (or properly springle) is set with another fork placed at right angles to the other. 1911 ‘H. Payson’ Boy Scouts of Eagle Patrol xiv. 170 Maybe we can set a springle and snare some [rabbits]. 1999 D. Parry Gram. & Gloss. Conservative Anglo-Welsh Dial. Rural Wales 188/1 Springle, a trap for catching birds. Compounds springle-bow n. rare a flexible switch forming part of a springle or snare. ΚΠ 1874 R. D. Blackmore Alice Lorraine iii. xviii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 603/2 The rod bowed like a springle-bow. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). springlen.2 Chiefly English regional (midlands and East Anglian). Now rare. Thatching. A rod, esp. of hazel, used to fasten down thatch. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > thatching equipment > rod for fastening down thatch spelk1563 springle1657 thatching-rod1703 spar1746 spear1837 spick1890 thatch-rod1903 ledger1916 ligger1953 1657 in W. M. Myddelton Chirk Castle Accts. (1908) I. 69 Paid labourers..for thatch and springles for the said mill. 1739 in Acct. Bk. T. Fenton (Staffordshire Rec. Office D(W)1788) Parcel 31, Bundle 8 3 daies Thatching & Serving..Laths & Springles. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 46 The branches are cut to make springles. 1836 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (rev. ed.) 793 The plant [sc. hazel] is of some value for hoops,..wattling-fences, and springles to fasten down thatch. 1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua Gloss. Springle, a rod four feet long, generally of hazle or the mountain ash, used in thatching. 1923 E. Gepp Essex Dial. Dict. (ed. 2) 106 Springle, a stick used to fasten thatch. 1993 Times 4 Oct. 9/6 The class tried splitting their own springles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † springlev.1α. late Middle English springel, late Middle English springell, late Middle English sprynggill, late Middle English spryngil, late Middle English–1600s 1900s springle. β. late Middle English sprengle. Obsolete (archaic in later use). transitive. To sprinkle. Also occasionally intransitive.Apparently unattested in the 18th and 19th centuries. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of sprinkling > sprinkle liquid or something with liquid [verb (transitive)] strinklea1300 sprinkc1390 springle?a1425 sprinkle?a1425 asperse1490 asperge1547 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > sprinkle warpc1000 sprengeOE strenkc1175 springa1387 bespring1387 sprinkc1390 sprinklea1400 strinklec1400 springle?a1425 sprinkle?a1425 sprainc1440 bespreng1496 oversprinkle?1548 overstrew1570 besprent1573 insperse1587 insperge1599 asperse1607 besprink1609 disparple?1615 spark1637 swiggle1683 twirl1763 sparkle1787 bespatter1813 spray1829 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 66 (MED) He commaunded þat..aboue be springled [L. aspergatur] puluer conseruatyue of suturez. ?a1475 Noble Bk. Cookry in Middle Eng. Dict. at Rosten Turbot..when it rostis, springle on salt. a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Cambr.) (1879) 344 (MED) A lytill kyngdome is here..in the which is a well of water of suche vertu þat if it be sprenglid on the dede body, It shall leve agayn. c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxiiij/1 Than thou most moyst them twyes or thries in the day not yeting but dewyng or springling. 1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips xxxv. 219 The postes or dore cheekes of ye Israelites were springled with the bloud of the lambe. 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Versprengen, to Strowe, or to Springle here and there. 1687 R. L'Estrange tr. M. de Cervantes in Spanish Decameron 230 There was no occasion of springling any Water on her Face to revive her. 1910 G. K. Chesterton Alarms & Discursions 57 Some overflowings from such a fountain of information may therefore be permitted to springle these pages. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † springlev.2 Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To sparkle. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [verb (intransitive)] > sparkle or glitter twinklec888 shimc950 blika1000 glisec1000 glistenc1000 glista1225 glore13.. sparkc1300 glisterc1380 sparklec1386 spranklea1387 glittera1400 sprinklea1400 blikenc1400 glaster1447 springlec1460 sprangle1495 brandish1552 pink1589 scintillate1623 simper1633 twink1637 spangle1639 scintill1681 scintillize1694 prinkle1724 skinkle1765 winkle1791 coruscate1807 c1460 (c1450) P. Idley Instr. to his Son (Laud) (1935) ii. B. l. 322 Sprynggalyng [c1475 Cambr. foure deuellis..sette this whele vppon hir hede; As ony hote Iron it was sparklyng rede]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.11602n.21657v.1?a1425v.2c1460 |
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