单词 | strainer |
释义 | strainern. 1. a. A utensil or device for straining, filtering, or sifting; a filter, sieve, screen, or the like. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > straining > [noun] > strainer strainer1326 renge?1362 canvasc1386 strain1432 searcec1440 sye1468 runnera1475 ranger1485 renger1510 searce-net1526 colatory?1541 range1542 sight1559 sythe1568 colature1577 tamis1601 sile-dish1668 hurdle1725 kenting1725 stamin1725 tammy1769 tamin1847 vat-neta1884 chinois1937 1326 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 15 In 20 ulnis linee tele pro Naprouns et streyngoures. 1348–9 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 43 In Streynyours. 139. Earl Derby's Exped. (Camden) 22/3 Pro xl virges de streynours ad iij d., x s. a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 9 Þorowgh a strynour þou hom strene. 1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 7 For to make..sauses thorugh the strayner. 1527 Luton Trin. Guild (1906) 188 Payd for A gelebag and a strenere v d. 1533 in Kal. & Inv. Exch. (1836) II. 294 Item a strayner of golde for orrenges. 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 41/2 Then straygne them through a clothe or straygner. 1640 T. Brugis Marrow of Physicke ii. 155 Let it run through a woollen strainer. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 216 Pour it..into a Strainer of fine thin Linen, or of twisted Hair. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. x. 232 The silver strainer, on which..the lady of the house placed the tea-leaves. 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 254 Rose, or Strainer, a plate of copper or lead perforated with small holes, sometimes placed upon the heel of a pump to prevent any thing being sucked in which might choke the pump. 1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. xi. 123 The ejector is surrounded by a strainer and placed in an ejector tank. 1894 Outing 24 435/1 A basket of gravel and dirt is thrown into a bamboo strainer. b. Applied to natural structures or processes which perform the function of filtering. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > straining > [noun] > strainer > natural structure acting as strainer1626 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §93 The Cause of Orient Colours in Birds..is by the Finenesse of the Strainer. 1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus xxii. 51 The office of the Lungs is only to serve the heart in the capacity of Aereal strainers, to strain the Air. 1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved ii. 20 All the little Glands and Strainers of the Body. 1772 T. Pennant Tours Scotl. (1774) 169 The apertures to the gills very long, and furnished with Strainers. 1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xxx. 663 Seeing that in some whales there are above three hundred plates composing the outer row on each side of the mouth, the reader may form some idea of the extent of this enormous strainer. 1880 T. H. Huxley Crayfish ii. 53 So is the cuticle of the stomach calcified..to give rise..to a filter or strainer, whereby the nutritive juices are separated from the innutritious hard parts of the food. c. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1621–31 W. Laud Serm. (1847) 44 The blessings..come not immediately from God to the people,..but they are strained..through the man, and therefore must relish a little of the strainer, him and his mortality. 1648 T. Winyard Midsummer-moone 4 Hee is a strainer, retaines all the dregges, and clarifies the University as milke and whites of eggs doth Ippocras. 1666 T. Watson Godly Mans Picture 255 He put his body to no other use, but to be a strainer for meat and drink to run thorow. 1734 A. Pope Ess. Man (rev. ed.) ii. 183 Lust, thro' some certain Strainers well refin'd, Is gentle Love. 1813 Examiner 26 Apr. 266/1 To them may be traced, through different strainers, almost all the fictions of European romance. 2. a. A device for stretching or tightening. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering dimensions > [noun] > stretcher strainer1527 stretcher1532 1527 in Archaeologia 36 222 Item syx banner clothys and foure streyners and eyght pools too the same. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 396/2 A [Sadlers'] Strainer..is made of Wood [etc.]..with this the Girth web is fastned and drawn streat upon the Sadle trees; or in such places where the Girth requires straining. 1883 J. Scott Farm Roads 83 The wires are strained by a portable strainer. b. New Zealand. elliptical for strainer post below. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hedge or fence > a fence > wire fence > post draw post1822 straining-post1882 strainer post1921 strainer1933 1933 E. Jones Autobiogr. Early Settler xviii. 77 I know of a wire fence which was erected with wire strainers 70 years ago. 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Apr. 347/3 Reinforced concrete strainers and intermediate posts are preferable to wood. 1961 B. Crump Hang on a Minute Mate 43 They'd been splitting the short ends of logs into posts and strainers. 3. (See quot. 1891.) ΚΠ 1891 Cent. Dict. Strainer... In carriage-building: (a) A reinforcing strip or button at the back of a panel. (b) Canvas glued to the back of a panel to prevent warping or cracking. CompoundsΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > filtering or percolating > [noun] > filter or percolator > cloth or bag strainer-cloth1444 hippocras bag?a1500 felt1527 filter1576 Hippocrates' bag1605 Hippocrates' sleeve1605 manica Hippocratis1651 hippocras sleeve1679 bag-filtera1877 1444 in W. B. D. D. Turnbull Compota Domestica (1836) 21 Pro bultyngclothes strenourclothes [etc.]. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 432 b/2 He..ware for a Shyrte a Stamyn or Streyner clothe. 1536–7 in Myroure Oure Ladye (1873) Introd. p. xxxi Strayner cloth j pece. strainer post n. chiefly New Zealand = straining-post n. at straining n. Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hedge or fence > a fence > wire fence > post draw post1822 straining-post1882 strainer post1921 strainer1933 1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira xviii. 148 A kerosene case nailed to the top of a strainer-post. 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Apr. 347/3 At the ends of each fence should be a good strainer post stayed in position in the normal way. 1965 S. T. Ollivier Petticoat Farm ix. 132 If she walked round the drain she could climb on the corner strainer post and get a view of the house. 1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 101 End or corner strainer posts are supported by diagonal struts. strainer-vine n. Luffa acutangula (Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 788). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1326 |
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