单词 | bounder |
释义 | boundern.1 I. A person concerned with boundaries. 1. One who sets or marks out bounds or limits. literal and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > determination of boundary > beating bounds > one who beats or determines liner14.. bounder1570 bounderer1610 marcher1635 meresman1828 demarcator1898 bound-beater1909 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Fiiiv/2 A Bounder, terminator. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 745 Vmpiers & Bounders between diverse Shires. a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. vii. §6. 274 The Bounder of all these, is onely God himselfe: who..is the Bounder of all things. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > border dweller marchman?a1380 marcher1384 bounder1542 borderera1552 border-man1620 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 105v The bordreers or bounders inhabityng round about any place are called in greke Αμϕικτυονες. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > one who mines metals > tin-miner > specific spadiard1610 bounder1702 stream-tinner1839 tin-streamer1839 tin-bounder1865 1702 London Gaz. No. 3773/1 The humble Address of the Landlords, Bounders, Adventurers, and Miners, within the County of Cornwal. 1708 London Gaz. No. 4458/1 The Owners, Bounders, Adventurers..concerned in Tin..at Truroe. II. Something that is a boundary or limit. 4. A limit, a boundary; a landmark: probably a corruption of boundure n. [compare border] , taken as bounder ‘that which bounds’. archaic or dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] goalc1350 bounda1387 list1389 finea1400 frontier1413 enda1425 limit1439 buttal1449 headroom1462 band1470 mete?1473 buttinga1475 bounder1505 pale?a1525 butrelle1546 scantlet1547 limesa1552 divisec1575 meta1587 line1595 marginc1595 closure1597 Rubicon1613 bournea1616 boundary1626 boundure1634 verge1660 terminary1670 meta1838 1505 in J. T. Fowler Acts Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1875) 304 The howse..and the bowndor therof. 1564 E. Grindal Serm. Funeral Prince Ferdinandus 27 They..only builded it for a bounder and for a testimony. 1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 232 The Posts there placed, as a bounder. 1619 Bp. J. King Serm. 14 Mine old age,—for that is the bounder of nature. 1635 R. Brathwait tr. M. Silesio Arcadian Princesse 139 From the flowry boundiers of his Empire. 1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie ii. sig. Oo2v The River Ob, (the East boundar of Russia). 1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 64 The inquisition of ‘the bounder’ of Hatfield Chase, taken in 1607. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 18 Bounders, landmarks or boundaries, fences. Compounds General attributive. bounder-mark n. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > land-boundary > boundary mark markingOE boundc1275 marka1325 merea1387 meithc1430 limit1439 doolc1440 prop1450 march1495 landmark1535 mere boundc1600 mere-mark1611 border-mark1613 bound-mark1623 bounder-mark1666 boundary-mark1878 1666 Peramb. Danby in Atkinson Provinc. Danby (1863) The exact distance between each bounder mark and other. bounder-stone n. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > land-boundary > boundary mark > stone hoar-stone847 honeeOE merestoneOE markstoneOE march stone1519 shire-stone1536 dool-stone1580 bound-stone1602 witter stone1615 metestone1617 bounder-stone1635 bourne-stone1837 1635 G. Wither Coll. Emblemes 161 The bounder-stones held sacred heretofore. a1699 T. Comber Dial. Tithes in Compan. Temple (1702) II. 567 To seize on his Neighbour's Field, or remove his Bounder-stone. 1863 J. C. Atkinson Provinc. Danby Bounder-stoups, upright stones..serving to mark limits or boundaries. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). boundern.2ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > light carriage > other light or small dray1565 Windsor chair1724 ekka1811 Jersey wagon1811 spanker1831 bounder1842 1842 Hints to Freshmen (Hotten, 1865) The man who drives has a well-appointed ‘bounder’ of his own. 1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 11 Bounder, a four wheel cab. 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 82 Bounder,..a University term for a trap. 2. A person of objectionable manners or anti-social behaviour; a cad. Also in milder use as a term of playful abuse. (Occasionally applied to a woman.) colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > baseness or moral vileness > person wretchOE filthOE birdc1300 villain1303 caitiffc1330 crachouna1400 crathona1400 custronc1400 sloven?a1475 smaik?1507 rook?a1513 scavenger1563 scald1575 peasant1581 scaba1592 bezonian1592 slave1592 patchcock1596 muckworm1649 blackguard1732 ramscallion1734 nasty1825 cad1838 boundera1889 three-letter man1929 a1889 in Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang (1889) (at cited word) If I ordered the particular hat I desired I should be taken for a bounder. 1889 in Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang (1889) (at cited word) Bounder (university), a student whose manners are despised by the soi-disant élite, or who is beyond the boundary of good fellowship…(society), a swell, a stylish fellow, but of a very vulgar type. 1890 Times 2 May 13/5 To speak of a man as a bounder is to allude to him as an outsider or cad. 1899 W. Archer Study & Stage 48 That is an anti-social proceeding, the conduct of a ‘bounder’. 1912 A. Brazil New Girl at St. Chad's viii. 126 Flossie is a bounder! 1917 J. Adams Student's Guide 27 A prig is one who has too much self-respect, a bounder one who has too little. 1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress vi. 70 He had been marched up the Haymarket in the full sight of all London by a bounder of a policeman. 1930 W. S. Maugham Cakes & Ale xvii. 195 Women..adore a bounder. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † bounderv. Obsolete. To bound. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > be near to [verb (transitive)] > be in contact with > border on toucha1387 coastc1400 border1535 to bound on?1577 mere1577 board1596 bank1598 skirt1602 tract1612 bounder1636 buttal1642 border1647 hadland1649 line1846 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > bound or form boundary of [verb (transitive)] terminate?a1425 border1570 limit1578 frontier1599 lista1600 bound1601 confine1601 bounder1636 verge1817 delimit1879 1636 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1886) IV. A place boundering on Holtby. 1826 T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds (ed. 6) I. 147 The chin and upper part of the neck are yellow, boundered by a black line. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < |
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