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单词 sprittle
释义

sprittlen.

Forms:

α. early Middle English spritlen (plural), early Middle English sprutelen (plural), Middle English spritell, Middle English spritil.

β. Middle English speretel, 1500s spertell.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sprit v.1, -le suffix.
Etymology: < sprit v.1 + -le suffix. Compare (ultimately from the Germanic base of sprout v.1, sprit v.1, and sprote n.1) Old English sprytlan (plural) chips or slivers of wood, Old High German spruzzil bar (Middle High German sprüzzel rung of a ladder, German regional Sprüssel young shoot, rung of a ladder).The β. forms show metathesis (compare spirt v.2).
Obsolete.
A young shoot or twig.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > bough or branch > young branch, twig, or shoot
sprittle?c1225
leader1572
arrow1574
graft1576
thief1669
leading shoot1712
coppice shoot1851
Lammas shoot1929
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 202 Druȝe spritlen [a1300 Caius sprutelen] beoreð win berien.
?c1450 in Anglia (1896) 18 306 Take to handfull of ȝonge elerne-spritell And schrape of þe ouerest bark with a qwetyll.
1594 P. Henslowe Diary (1961) 236 Itm pd for smalle spertelles grene…xx d.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

sprittlev.

Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown. Compare -le suffix 3.
Obsolete (English regional (northern and east midlands) in later use).
transitive. To scrape or prise (something) up or out with a fork, hoe, or other implement.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > dig out or up
delvec1000
upgravea1340
undelve1340
grubc1374
to dig upc1400
to dig outa1425
unearthc1450
sprittle1585
effode1657
to cast up1660
exhume1783
moot1823
excavate1848
lift1883
spud1886
pig-root1890
society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [verb (transitive)] > dig (hole, etc.) > dig up (object)
upgravea1340
digc1350
to dig upc1400
to dig outa1425
unearthc1450
holk1554
moil1581
sprittle1585
effodicate1599
moot1610
effode1657
to cast up1660
to rough out1834
exter1835
excavate1848
crow1853
stub1927
1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. i. 254 Then with a brasse or yron pipe..thrust into the bottome of it [sc. a wart], [they] do sprittle it vp by the roots.
1880 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 16 581 I found an old man and a woman respectively engaged in ‘sprittling’ out with a fork the few pieces of grassy twitch sod.
1904 J. P. Kirk in Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 693/1 [South Nottinghamshire] Yer mun sprittle the loose lime off o' the ceiling. Just sprittle them weeds up on the pad; don't dig 'em up.
1904 W. W. Skeat in Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 693/1 Sprittle,..[Lincolnshire] to hoe up all the weeds and to take away unnecessary sprouts from a garden bed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019).
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