单词 | theat |
释义 | theatn. Scottish. a. plural. ‘The ropes or traces, by means of which horses draw in a carriage, plough, or harrow’ (Jamieson): now chiefly of the plough. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > traces tracec1350 side rope1370 wain-rope1371 trace14.. soam1404 pintrace1440 side-trace1445 wain-string1464 theats1496 treat1611 trek-tow1822 trace-chain1844 tug-strap1882 trek-rope1883 trace-rope1900 1496 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 293 Item, for xiij stane and a pund of towis to be thetis. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. ix. 77 The renis and the thetis, Quharwyth hys stedis ȝokkit war in thretis. 1573 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1861) III. 61 Twoo payre of tyghtes or trases for horses wth withes of iren.] 1599 Aberdeen Regr. (1848) II. 183 Cutting with his knyff the theattis of the said pleucht. 1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. IV. 395 The rashen theets [are supplanted] by the iron traces. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 694 The sort of harness with which he is first invested is that of the plough, consisting of a bridle, collar,..and back-band and chains, or theats, as these are called in some parts of the country. b. In figurative and allusive expressions: cf. traces. out of theats (also out of theet), out of bounds: see quot. 1710, and cf. ‘to kick over the traces’ (kick v.1 1c). ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > [adjective] > going astray scrithingOE sinister1526 aberrantc1536 strayed1544 straying1553 exorbitant1556 erroneous1595 wandering1606 devious1633 theat1682 1682 Peden in Life & Proph. (1868) 13 Good Lord, cut their theets, that their swingle-trees may fall to the ground. 1710 T. Ruddiman in G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneis (new ed.) Gloss. at Thetis Ye are out of theet, i.e. ye are extravagant or in the wrong. a1732 T. Boston Memoirs (1776) v. 51 They were going to call a new upstart, one that broke the thetes. 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb ii. 17 Keep baith laird an' tenan' straucht i' the theets. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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