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单词 throck
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throckn.

Brit. /θrɒk/, U.S. /θrɑk/
Forms:

α. Old English þroc, 1600s 1800s– throck, 1700s throuck (English regional (Cheshire)), 1700s–1800s thruck (English regional (Cheshire)).

β. 1700s– drock.

γ. Welsh English 1900s– drot.

Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown.Perhaps compare thurrock n. 3. A connection with the Germanic base of through n.1 has also been suggested. Compare also Scots (north-eastern) throck (also frock ), the name given to certain pairs of oxen in the twelve-oxen plough team (19th cent.), apparently showing an extended use of sense 1. Also apparently attested early in place names (probably in sense ‘beam, trestle’); compare Þrokonholt, Isle of Ely (first half of 12th cent.; now Throckenholt), Þrocbriggæ, Hampshire (in a mid-12th cent. copy of a forged charter dated to 826; now Drockbridge), and perhaps also Trochinge, Hertfordshire (1086; now Throcking).
English regional (west midlands) and Welsh English in later use.
1. The share-beam of a plough; cf. plough-head n. 1. Formerly also: †an upright beam connecting the wrest and mouldboard of a plough to the handle (obsolete). Cf. sole n.1 6b.Originally made of wood, later of iron.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > share-beam
reesteOE
share beamOE
throckOE
chipOE
plough-heada1325
plough-reesta1325
plough chip1652
plough throck1652
chep1677
share head1776
furrower1841
OE Harley Gloss. (1966) 124 Dentale, prima in qua uomer inducitur quasi dens scilicet est aratri pars, sule reost uel þroc.
1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxviii. 189 For the Plough-head, some call them the Plough throck, some the Plough-chip.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 333/2 The Throck [of a Plow] is the piece of Timber on which the Suck is fixed.
a1699 T. Nourse Campania Fœlix (1700) 119 Ash in Husbandry serves for Spittle or Spade-Trees, for Drocks and Spindles for Plows, [etc.].
a1728 W. Kennett MS Coll. Provinc. Words (BL Lansdowne MS 1033) f. 395v/2 Thruck or Throuck of a plough. The piece of wood that goes thro ye beam of the plough at the end of wch the Suck or Share is fastned... Chesh.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Drock..is an upright piece of timber..belonging to the right side of the tail... The ground wrist of the plow is fastened to this, as also is the earth board.
1791 J. Townsend Journey Spain I. 229 An English mechanic will not readily conceive how a plough can be made..without coulter, drock, ground-wrist, and mould-board.
1801 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 986/2 The drock is made tapering for the purpose of admitting the share.
1893 J. Salisbury Gloss. Words S.E. Worcs. Throck, the lower part of a (wooden) plough. On the end of the throck the ploughshare is fixed.
1969 H. Orton & M. V. Barry Surv. Eng. Dial. II. i. 121 What do you call this, the flat iron foundation [i.e. the sole of a plough]?.. [Herefordshire] Drock, Throck.
1999 D. Parry Gram. & Gloss. Conservative Anglo-Welsh Dial. Rural Wales 150/1 Drock, Drot, the sole of a plough.
2. A table (perhaps spec. a trestle table). Obsolete.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun]
boarda1000
beodc1000
throckOE
tablec1330
stool1519
taffel1552
magazine table1966
OE West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) xi. 15 Þa comon hi eft to Hierusalem & þa he on þæt templ eode he ongann drifan of þam temple syllende & bicgende, & mynetera þrocu..he tobræc.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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