单词 | sugar-chest |
释义 | † sugar-chestn. Obsolete. 1. A chest for sugar. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > chest, box, or bag > for sugar sugar-chest1549 sugar-box1796 1549 in Accts. Ld. High Treasurer Scotl. (1911) IX. 345 For..careing of ane suckar kist furtht of Leytht to Edinburght..vj s. 2. Applied to the hard wood of various trees and to the trees themselves: see quots. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > [noun] > hardwood tree > particular hardwood trees or shrubs witch hazela1400 mazer?c1475 hardbeam1544 sugar-chest1545 hornbeam1577 yoke tree1585 yoke elm1597 iron tree1623 ironwood1672 horn-wood1731 horse-beech1731 horn-beech1771 hardwood1842 stonewood1863 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > hardwood > names for very hard wood sugar-chest1545 ironwood1625 stonewood1863 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 12 Steles [of arrows] be made of dyuerse woodes..as..Sugercheste [etc.]. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) ix. f. 121 From vnderneath a Sugarchest [tr. sub ilice]. 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 149/1 Alnus nigra,..the blacke alder tree: some take it to be that which is commonly called sugerchest. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Evano, Ebenus Sugarchest. 1609 J. Davies Holy Roode Ded. sig. A2 To Flesh and Blood this Tree but Wormewood seemes, How ere the same may be of Suger-chest. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 29 I us'd to make them of Sugar-Chest; That Stuff being commonly well-season'd, by the long lying of the Sugar in it, and is besides a fine hard Wood. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1545 |
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