swatchn.¹

Brit.

/swɒtʃ/, U.S.

/swɔtʃ/,

/swɑtʃ/, Scottish English

/swɔtʃ/

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s swache, 1600s suache, swatche.

Etymology: Origin unknown.

Originally Scottish and northern.

1. †The ‘foil’ or ‘counterstock’ of a tally (obsolete); in Yorkshire, a tally ‘affixed to a piece of cloth before it is put with others into the dye-kettle’ (Robinson Whitby Gloss. 1876).

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > receipt > part of tally

countertailc1430

countertally1440

swatch?a1527

stock1642

counterfoil1706

counterstock1706

society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > labelling > [noun] > label, tag, or ticket > on cloth

swatch1691

?a1527 in Regulations & Establishm. Househ. Earl of Northumberland (1905) 60 That the said Clerkis of the Brevements entre all the Taillis of the Furmunturs in the Jornall Booke in the Countynghous every day furthwith after the Brede be delyveret to the Pantre and then the Stoke of the Taill to be delyveret to the Baker and the Swache to the Pantler.

1691 J. Ray N. Country Words A Swache, a Tally: that which is fixt to Cloth sent to Dye, of which the Owner keeps the other part.

a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) Swatch, a pattern, or tally, a term among dyers in Yorkshire, &c.

2. A sample piece of cloth. Hence, of other materials (see also S.N.D.). Also, a collection of samples bound together, a swatch-book.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [noun] > piece of > other pieces

piece?c1430

fasel1440

speckc1440

pane1459

rag?1536

remnant1571

fag end1607

swatch1647

cut1753

rigg1769

hag's teeth1777

bias1824

spetch1828

shredlet1840

bias tape1884

short end1960

society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > sample of material

swatch1928

1647 in Sc. Jrnl. Topog. (1847) I. 95/1 I..tryid for ye neirest swachis of clothe I could find conforme to ye orders reseuid.

1690 Records New Mills Cloth Manuf. (S.H.S.) 219 That swatches of the most fashionable collours be sent to David Maxwell that he may dye them.

1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd III. vii. xi. 111 He had come with his swatches, in consequence of hearing I was likely to require a coloured coat.

1874 W. Crookes Pract. Handbk. Dyeing 658 Few colours..do not show a distinction if a swatch be cut in halves and preserved, the one in darkness and the other in the light.

1953 Times 23 July 1/4 (advt.) Duffle jackets and duffle coats... Swatches sent on request.

1973 Sci. Amer. June 119/2 Continue..until a piece of filter paper or swatch of cotton held close to the exit by means of long metal forceps begins to burn.

1982 Daily Tel. 2 Aug. 9/2 He wears swatches of the hats he is currently working on, hat-pinned to his tie for inspiration.

in extended use.a1708 T. Ward England's Reformation (1710) i. 14 Those little swatches, Us'd by the Fair sex, called Patches.1928 ‘P. Grey’ Making of King 6 Ye'll mind an' bring a swatch o' yer wallpaper wi' ye.1957 Brit. Commonw. Forest Terminol.: Pt. II (Empire Forestry Assoc.) ii. 192 Swatch, a sample sheet of veneer, usually 3 ft. long and the full width of the flitch.1965 G. McInnes Road to Gundagai iii. 38 One's wants were provided for by a swatch of neatly cut squares from the Hobart Mercury struck on a nail in the wall.1973 Sci. Amer. Apr. 41/1 A swatch of inks as rendered by Kodak color slide films that maximize consumer satisfaction with the greenness of grass, the blueness of sky, and the healthy glow of complexions.1981 N. Gordimer July's People 54 She knew it was impossible that he could have made free of the still-thick swatch of notes, lying swollen as the leaves of a book that has got wet and dried again.

3. figurative. A sample, specimen. Also extendedly (esp. without the notion of a sample), a portion, a clump.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit

stitchc825

piecec1230

nookc1300

crotc1330

gobbetc1330

batc1340

lipe1377

gobbona1387

bladc1527

goblet1530

slice1548

limb1577

speild1653

swatch1697

frustum1721

nib1877

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case > part as representative of the whole > sample or specimen

taste1390

muster1400

sample1428

scantillon1465

say1525

casta1556

assay1581

show1582

shave1604

trial1612

essay1614

pattern1648

trial-piece1663

dasha1672

swatch1697

spice1790

sampler1823

1697 J. Sage Fund. Charter Presbytery (ed. 2) Pref. sig. Cvjb Such a sample of him; such a swatch (pardon the word, if it is not English) of both his Historical and his Argumentative Skill.

1708 in W. Mure Select. Family Papers Caldwell (1854) I. 216 My Lord Macclesfield and his retinue they took for a swatch of the nation.

1719 A. Ramsay Epist. to J. Arbuckle 95 Ye's get a short swatch of my creed.

1786 R. Burns Holy Fair x, in Poems 45 On this hand sits an Elect swatch, Wi' screw'd-up, grace-proud faces.

1823 J. Galt Ringan Gilhaize I. xiv. 157 Truly..thou's no an ill swatch o' the Reformers.

a1841 R. W. Hamilton Nugæ Lit. 355 [On Yorks. Dial.] A Swatch, or smatch, is an attack, not very serious, of any evil. ‘A swatch of the fever.’

1930 Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. 19 May 5/2 Swatches from Shakespeare... The miscellany consisted of excerpts from ‘Henry IV’,..the ghost scene in ‘Hamlet’, [etc.].

1950 A. Lomax Mister Jelly Roll 30 The hollows of his cheeks and temples showing dark against silvery skin, and up towards the ceiling a swatch of silvery hair.

1961 J. Steinbeck Winter of our Discontent 358 A swatch from Lincoln's Second Inaugural.

1963 Punch 31 July 165/1 I..consumed unbelievable swatches of it [sc. electricity].

1972 J. Mosedale Football ii. 23 A swatch of astroturf in the Hall leads to the present.

1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Oct. 1254/1 Mr Boston gives a fair selection: the life and death of the Admirable Crichtoun from The Jewel, a reasonable swatch of Logopandecteision.

Compounds

swatch-book n. a book of samples.

ΘΚΠ

pin paper1673

pattern book1772

pattern card1822

specimen-book1871

sample book1938

swatch-book1956

1956 Archit. Rev. 119 286/1 One of the first firms to pin their colours to this mast is T. & W. Farmiloe Ltd., the manufacturers of Nine Elms Paints, who present the full range in the form of a truly magnificent swatch-book.

1978 Times 26 Jan. 13/5 Some of the collections were just dull... Why not just send for the swatch-book?

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

swatchn.³

Brit.

/swɒtʃ/, U.S.

/swɔtʃ/,

/swɑtʃ/

Etymology: In local English use chiefly in eastern counties. Its relation to swash n.¹ 3 is not clear.

local.

A passage or channel of water lying between sandbanks or between a sandbank and the shore.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > channel > [noun] > navigable channel through shoals, etc.

channel1536

thoroughfare1598

swatch1626

traversea1645

pilot water1653

swash1694

pass1698

waterway1759

water lane1779

swatchway1798

fairwater1802

swash-way1839

water gate1850

stoach-way1853

seaway1866

swash channel1885

1626 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1624–9 (1909) 117 [Anchored] without the swatch of Swally.

1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 336 From a Mile distance off, to the Shore, are several Swatches and Channels to go through, having Water enough for any Ship.

1775 B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida App. 86 There are two swatches thro' the east breaker.

1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 243 A nearly circular space called the ‘swatch of no ground’ [in the middle of the Bay of Bengal].

1889 A. T. Pask Eyes of Thames 66 The famous ‘Swatch’ caused by the meeting of the Thames and Medway tides.

1912 Hannay in Blackwood's Mag. Mar. 369/1 The access to the roadstead was through ‘swatches’.

Compounds

ˈswatchway n. = swash-way n. at swash adv., int., and n.¹ Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > channel > [noun] > navigable channel through shoals, etc.

channel1536

thoroughfare1598

swatch1626

traversea1645

pilot water1653

swash1694

pass1698

waterway1759

water lane1779

swatchway1798

fairwater1802

swash-way1839

water gate1850

stoach-way1853

seaway1866

swash channel1885

1798 Hull Advertiser 29 Dec. 2/1 Anchors and cables, lost and left in the Humber..in the open of Patrington Swatch Way.

1851 Taylor Improvem. Tyne 85 Such is an origin of swatchways in tidal rivers.

1890 Nature 10 Apr. 539/2 The Duke of Edinburgh Channel, the deepest swatchway of the estuary.

1903 E. Childers Riddle of Sands xii. 154 We traversed the Steil Sand again, but by a different swatchway.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	swatch
释义	swatchn.¹ Brit. /swɒtʃ/, U.S. /swɔtʃ/, /swɑtʃ/, Scottish English /swɔtʃ/ Forms: Also 1500s–1600s swache, 1600s suache, swatche. Etymology: Origin unknown. Originally Scottish and northern. 1. †The ‘foil’ or ‘counterstock’ of a tally (obsolete); in Yorkshire, a tally ‘affixed to a piece of cloth before it is put with others into the dye-kettle’ (Robinson Whitby Gloss. 1876). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > receipt > part of tally countertailc1430 countertally1440 swatch?a1527 stock1642 counterfoil1706 counterstock1706 society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > labelling > [noun] > label, tag, or ticket > on cloth swatch1691 ?a1527 in Regulations & Establishm. Househ. Earl of Northumberland (1905) 60 That the said Clerkis of the Brevements entre all the Taillis of the Furmunturs in the Jornall Booke in the Countynghous every day furthwith after the Brede be delyveret to the Pantre and then the Stoke of the Taill to be delyveret to the Baker and the Swache to the Pantler. 1691 J. Ray N. Country Words A Swache, a Tally: that which is fixt to Cloth sent to Dye, of which the Owner keeps the other part. a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) Swatch, a pattern, or tally, a term among dyers in Yorkshire, &c. 2. A sample piece of cloth. Hence, of other materials (see also S.N.D.). Also, a collection of samples bound together, a swatch-book. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [noun] > piece of > other pieces piece?c1430 fasel1440 speckc1440 pane1459 rag?1536 remnant1571 fag end1607 swatch1647 cut1753 rigg1769 hag's teeth1777 bias1824 spetch1828 shredlet1840 bias tape1884 short end1960 society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > sample of material swatch1928 1647 in Sc. Jrnl. Topog. (1847) I. 95/1 I..tryid for ye neirest swachis of clothe I could find conforme to ye orders reseuid. 1690 Records New Mills Cloth Manuf. (S.H.S.) 219 That swatches of the most fashionable collours be sent to David Maxwell that he may dye them. 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd III. vii. xi. 111 He had come with his swatches, in consequence of hearing I was likely to require a coloured coat. 1874 W. Crookes Pract. Handbk. Dyeing 658 Few colours..do not show a distinction if a swatch be cut in halves and preserved, the one in darkness and the other in the light. 1953 Times 23 July 1/4 (advt.) Duffle jackets and duffle coats... Swatches sent on request. 1973 Sci. Amer. June 119/2 Continue..until a piece of filter paper or swatch of cotton held close to the exit by means of long metal forceps begins to burn. 1982 Daily Tel. 2 Aug. 9/2 He wears swatches of the hats he is currently working on, hat-pinned to his tie for inspiration. in extended use.a1708 T. Ward England's Reformation (1710) i. 14 Those little swatches, Us'd by the Fair sex, called Patches.1928 ‘P. Grey’ Making of King 6 Ye'll mind an' bring a swatch o' yer wallpaper wi' ye.1957 Brit. Commonw. Forest Terminol.: Pt. II (Empire Forestry Assoc.) ii. 192 Swatch, a sample sheet of veneer, usually 3 ft. long and the full width of the flitch.1965 G. McInnes Road to Gundagai iii. 38 One's wants were provided for by a swatch of neatly cut squares from the Hobart Mercury struck on a nail in the wall.1973 Sci. Amer. Apr. 41/1 A swatch of inks as rendered by Kodak color slide films that maximize consumer satisfaction with the greenness of grass, the blueness of sky, and the healthy glow of complexions.1981 N. Gordimer July's People 54 She knew it was impossible that he could have made free of the still-thick swatch of notes, lying swollen as the leaves of a book that has got wet and dried again. 3. figurative. A sample, specimen. Also extendedly (esp. without the notion of a sample), a portion, a clump. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit stitchc825 piecec1230 nookc1300 crotc1330 gobbetc1330 batc1340 lipe1377 gobbona1387 bladc1527 goblet1530 slice1548 limb1577 speild1653 swatch1697 frustum1721 nib1877 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case > part as representative of the whole > sample or specimen taste1390 muster1400 sample1428 scantillon1465 say1525 casta1556 assay1581 show1582 shave1604 trial1612 essay1614 pattern1648 trial-piece1663 dasha1672 swatch1697 spice1790 sampler1823 1697 J. Sage Fund. Charter Presbytery (ed. 2) Pref. sig. Cvjb Such a sample of him; such a swatch (pardon the word, if it is not English) of both his Historical and his Argumentative Skill. 1708 in W. Mure Select. Family Papers Caldwell (1854) I. 216 My Lord Macclesfield and his retinue they took for a swatch of the nation. 1719 A. Ramsay Epist. to J. Arbuckle 95 Ye's get a short swatch of my creed. 1786 R. Burns Holy Fair x, in Poems 45 On this hand sits an Elect swatch, Wi' screw'd-up, grace-proud faces. 1823 J. Galt Ringan Gilhaize I. xiv. 157 Truly..thou's no an ill swatch o' the Reformers. a1841 R. W. Hamilton Nugæ Lit. 355 [On Yorks. Dial.] A Swatch, or smatch, is an attack, not very serious, of any evil. ‘A swatch of the fever.’ 1930 Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. 19 May 5/2 Swatches from Shakespeare... The miscellany consisted of excerpts from ‘Henry IV’,..the ghost scene in ‘Hamlet’, [etc.]. 1950 A. Lomax Mister Jelly Roll 30 The hollows of his cheeks and temples showing dark against silvery skin, and up towards the ceiling a swatch of silvery hair. 1961 J. Steinbeck Winter of our Discontent 358 A swatch from Lincoln's Second Inaugural. 1963 Punch 31 July 165/1 I..consumed unbelievable swatches of it [sc. electricity]. 1972 J. Mosedale Football ii. 23 A swatch of astroturf in the Hall leads to the present. 1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Oct. 1254/1 Mr Boston gives a fair selection: the life and death of the Admirable Crichtoun from The Jewel, a reasonable swatch of Logopandecteision. Compounds swatch-book n. a book of samples. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case > part as representative of the whole > sample or specimen > a collection of samples pin paper1673 pattern book1772 pattern card1822 specimen-book1871 sample book1938 swatch-book1956 1956 Archit. Rev. 119 286/1 One of the first firms to pin their colours to this mast is T. & W. Farmiloe Ltd., the manufacturers of Nine Elms Paints, who present the full range in the form of a truly magnificent swatch-book. 1978 Times 26 Jan. 13/5 Some of the collections were just dull... Why not just send for the swatch-book? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online June 2022). swatchn.² Etymology: apparently an irregular variant of swath n.¹ Compare dialect swatch = swathe v. Obsolete exc. dialect. A row (of corn or grass) cut. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > crop as it falls cut swathc1325 swarth1552 rew1553 swatch1577 lodging1733 swipe1869 1577 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 55 One spreadeth those bands, so in order to ly, as barley (in swatches,) [1573 swathes] may fil it thereby. 1901 (Lancashire) in Eng. Dial. Dict. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online June 2018). swatchn.³ Brit. /swɒtʃ/, U.S. /swɔtʃ/, /swɑtʃ/ Etymology: In local English use chiefly in eastern counties. Its relation to swash n.¹ 3 is not clear. local. A passage or channel of water lying between sandbanks or between a sandbank and the shore. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > channel > [noun] > navigable channel through shoals, etc. channel1536 thoroughfare1598 swatch1626 traversea1645 pilot water1653 swash1694 pass1698 waterway1759 water lane1779 swatchway1798 fairwater1802 swash-way1839 water gate1850 stoach-way1853 seaway1866 swash channel1885 1626 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1624–9 (1909) 117 [Anchored] without the swatch of Swally. 1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 336 From a Mile distance off, to the Shore, are several Swatches and Channels to go through, having Water enough for any Ship. 1775 B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida App. 86 There are two swatches thro' the east breaker. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 243 A nearly circular space called the ‘swatch of no ground’ [in the middle of the Bay of Bengal]. 1889 A. T. Pask Eyes of Thames 66 The famous ‘Swatch’ caused by the meeting of the Thames and Medway tides. 1912 Hannay in Blackwood's Mag. Mar. 369/1 The access to the roadstead was through ‘swatches’. Compounds ˈswatchway n. = swash-way n. at swash adv., int., and n.¹ Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > channel > [noun] > navigable channel through shoals, etc. channel1536 thoroughfare1598 swatch1626 traversea1645 pilot water1653 swash1694 pass1698 waterway1759 water lane1779 swatchway1798 fairwater1802 swash-way1839 water gate1850 stoach-way1853 seaway1866 swash channel1885 1798 Hull Advertiser 29 Dec. 2/1 Anchors and cables, lost and left in the Humber..in the open of Patrington Swatch Way. 1851 Taylor Improvem. Tyne 85 Such is an origin of swatchways in tidal rivers. 1890 Nature 10 Apr. 539/2 The Duke of Edinburgh Channel, the deepest swatchway of the estuary. 1903 E. Childers Riddle of Sands xii. 154 We traversed the Steil Sand again, but by a different swatchway. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹?a1527n.²1577n.³1626
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