单词 | teagle |
释义 | teaglen. 1. A hoisting apparatus: = tackle n. 3; esp. one used for moving goods from floor to floor of a warehouse, etc. Also attributive. ΘΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > tackle tackle1539 teagle1828 block and tackle1838 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Teagle, a crane. 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 45 This apparatus is called a hoist or teagle. 1887 Manch. Courier 21 May 7/2 The teagle did not hang over the street, but was in a recess. He saw no one guiding the teagle rope. 1901 Act 1 Edw. VII c. 22 §10 Every hoist or teagle and every fly wheel. 2. transferred. (See quot.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowling equipment > [noun] > trap or snare panter1299 linesc1325 pitfalla1382 gilderta1400 pantle?a1450 shrape1532 pitfold1575 strap1584 scrape1620 pole trap1879 teagle1908 1908 Times, Lit. Supp. 4 June 180/3 A detestable method of bird-catching..specially-manufactured fish-hooks are baited and fastened to a string, known as a ‘teagle’, which is laid down in a place which the birds are likely to frequent. 1909 Spectator 21 Aug. 269/1 A law was passed making it illegal to catch any bird by means of the teagle. Derivatives ˈteagle v. transitive. dialect (a) to hoist or raise with or as with a teagle; = tackle v. 2; (b) to catch birds with a teagle (see sense 2). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > hunt birds [verb (intransitive)] > snare or net hoble1530 trainel1530 teagle1841 society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > work with tools or equipment [verb (transitive)] > lifting or hoisting equipment to wind upc1275 windc1440 sling1522 crane1570 hoise1573 pulley1581 tackle1711 lewis1837 teagle1841 to jack up1853 windlass1870 whorl1886 luff1913 1841 R. W. Hamilton Nugæ Lit. 355 To Teagle is to raise any thing by pulley or wheel. 1892 M. C. F. Morris Yorks. Folk-talk 386 Wa mun start ti teeagle 'em up wi' t'hosses. teagling n. the practice of catching birds with a teagle. Π 1910 Sat. Rev. 4 June 712/1 Sympathy with ‘teagling’, a barbarous but popular practice. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < |
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