单词 | tinaja |
释义 | tinajan. 1. In Spain: a large earthenware jar used to hold wine, oil, olives, or salted fish or meat; in parts of Spanish America, such a jar used for storing water. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > jar > [noun] > specific earthenware jar tinaja1574 Martaban1598 butizia1622 ghara1828 pithos1865 pelike1873 martabani1903 Martevaan1963 1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 384 His Souldiers..haue drunke out a whole tinage of wine. 1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. xlix. 106 Sixe great Tynages of fine Earth, which they doe call Porcelanas. 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. vi. 16/2 The water that they drinke..they keepe in great pots, (as the Tinaios in Spaine). 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xii. 25 The Inhabitants doe reserue water..in their Cisterns and Tynaxes. a1680 Lady Fanshawe in Lady Halkett & Lady Fanshawe Mem. (1979) 166 That admirable wine is kept in great tanajas, which are pots holding about 500 gallons each. 1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. ii. 231 At Coria are made the enormous earthenware jars in which oil and olives are kept: these tinajas are the precise amphoræ of the ancients. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 629/1 The earliest kinds now existing of Spanish pottery without either enamel or glaze are chiefly large wine-jars, ‘tinajas’, about 3 or 4 feet high, of graceful amphora-like shape, stamped with simple patterns in relief. 1924 Gorgas & Hendrick William Crawford Gorgas v. 179 An assault on the water barrels, cisterns, tinajas, and dish pans of the cities of Colon and Panama involved greater difficulties. 1949 Jrnl. N.Y. Bot. Garden Mar. 59 The women look like animated tea cozies..loaded down..with tinajas (jars) or rolls of mats made of reeds. 1971 L. A. Boger Dict. World Pottery & Porcelain 343/1 Tinajas were produced in all parts of Moslem Spain with..little variety in design. 2. south-west. U.S. A rock hollow where water is retained; hence, any temporary or intermittent pool. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > other types weelc897 lowa1200 sougha1300 plungec1450 Sabbatical pool1613 slough1714 tinaja1835 rock pool1836 pokelogan1848 salmon pool1866 plunge pool1870 Strandbad1939 solar pool1960 the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > containing water pan1494 peat pota1500 waterhole1688 basin1712 tinaja1835 swag1848 water pocket1863 rock hole1869 1835 T. Coulter Notes on Upper California 65 The only water to be had is found..in excavations called Tinajas, made by the Indians. 1857 A. Schott Observ. Country along Mexican Boundary 69 Permanent water is found under a cleft of igneous rocks, and does not properly deserve the name of a spring, but is rather a tinaja supplied by water trickling through the rocks from water~holes above. 1896 Science 3 Apr. 494/1 Knowledge of the few widely separated tinajas and springs was bought at the price of many lives. 1958 ‘W. Henry’ Seven Men at Mimbres Springs v. 55 The wells were pothole water tanks, rock tinajas. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1574 |
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