| 单词 | stick and stower |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(every) stick and stone (also stower, stock, etc.) b. (every) stick and stone (also stower, stock, etc.) and variants: all the parts or materials of a thing, esp. a building or other structure; the whole of a thing. Also used adverbially: totally, completely. Cf. stower n.1 1, stock and block at stock n.1 1e. ΚΠ ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 7177 (MED) Þe place was brynt, styk and stoure, Abbay and house. ?1459 Will of John Fastolf in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 90 That thanne the said John Paston shulde doo poule doun the said mansion and euery stone and stikke therof. a1500 (c1437) Brut (Lamb.) 583 Þe Calisers..bare lxiii clene away, Euery stikke & stone, & lafte not ther one log. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 232v [He] to declare hym selfe [free from the assumption of kingly power], was fain to pul down his hous sticke and stone euen to ye plain grounde. 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne ix. ix. 161 Godfrey meane-while to ruin sticke and stone Of this faire towne, with battrie sore, assaies. 1662 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) III. 612 We putt it into the fyre, That it mey be brunt both stik and stowre. a1771 J. Gill Coll. Serm. & Tracts (1778) I. xxx. 501 Sin is like the spreading leprosy in the house, which could not be cleansed of it, without pulling down every stick and stone. 1786 R. Burns Poems 216 Folk thought them ruin'd stick-an-stowe. 1829 Melodist 4 375 Old streets now it hard to trace is..; Swallow-street, so long well known, sir, Is swallow'd up both stick and stone. 1880 S. Baring-Gould Mehalah I. xii. 240 Cousin Charles is not the man to see his relatives sold up stick and stock. 1914 D. H. Lawrence Let. 22 Aug. (2002) II. 209 Germany is a queer country... I alternate between hating it thoroughly, stick stock and stone, and yearning over it fit to break my heart. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 292/2 A went in an' it'd all went! Ivvry bloody stick an' stow on it! 2015 A. B. Harp Sooner Story 20/2 Every faculty member, every student, every custom, every stick and stone on the campus, was there because of him. stick and stower (stour) 1. A stake, hedge-stake; a pale; a pole, post. stower-and-daub: = wattle and daub at daub n. 1a. †stick and stower (stour): see stick n.1 Phrases 7. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > [noun] > in form of bar, pole, rod, etc. stingc725 stakec893 sowelc900 tree971 rungOE shaftc1000 staffc1000 stockc1000 poleOE spritOE luga1250 lever1297 stanga1300 perchc1300 raftc1330 sheltbeam1336 stower1371 palea1382 spar1388 spire1392 perk1396 ragged staff1397 peela1400 slot1399 plantc1400 heck-stower1401 sparkin1408 cammockc1425 sallow stakec1440 spoke1467 perk treec1480 yard1480 bode1483 spit1485 bolm1513 gada1535 ruttock1542 stob1550 blade1558 wattle1570 bamboo1598 loggat1600 barling1611 sparret1632 picket1687 tringle1706 sprund1736 lug-pole1773 polting lug1789 baton1801 stuckin1809 rack-pin1821 picket-pin1844 I-iron1874 pricker1875 stag1881 podger1888 window pole1888 verge1897 sallow pole1898 lat1899 swizzle-stick1962 1371 in J. Raine Fabric Rolls York Minster (1859) 355 Uni homini amputanti stoures..pro parietibus domorum..per diem, 4 d. 1374 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 238 Dormannes giystes et etiam stures cum pertinenciis pro mediis parietibus in dictis cameris sub et supra. 1417–18 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 302 Pro staures emptis pro shepehekkys apud le Holme, 16d. c1440 Alphabet of Tales 158 He gatt hym a stowre, & gnew vppon þe tone end & made it sharpe with his tethe, & þrustid hym selfe evyn thrugh þerwith. c1475 (?c1425) Avowing of King Arthur (1984) l. 110 Butte sette my hed opon a store Butte giffe he flaey ȝo all fawre. c1480 (a1400) St. Christopher 224 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 346 Þane in his hand he hynt his store. 1481–2 in J. Raine Charters Priory Finchale (1837) p. ccclv Et in stowrys et virgis emptis pro eodem, xvjd. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. viii. 149 Apon a speyr, Or heich sting or stour of the fyr tre. 1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 45 A Stowre,..a hedge-stake. 1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. II. 16 Pock-net fishing..is performed by fixing stakes or stours (as they are called) in the sand. 1798 Sporting Mag. 12 166 Cut from thence a certain number of stakes and stowers. < as lemmas |
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