| 单词 | to lay leaven |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto lay leaven d. †(a) to lay a buck: to put clothes in soak for washing (obsolete). (b) to lay leaven (see quot. 1891).[Possibly confused (a) with some derivative of lye n.1, and (b) with lay v.2, allay v.1; but this is uncertain.] ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > wash clothes [verb (intransitive)] > by steeping or boiling to lay a buck1570 to lay the buck1570 to drive the buck1648 1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 29 Maides .iii. a clock, knede, lay your bucks or go brew. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Faire Faire la buée, to lay, or wash a bucke. 1633 D. Rogers Treat. Two Sacraments Gospell i. 42 Shee that cannot lay a leaven, but thinkes of the kingdome of Christ. 1891 S. O. Addy Suppl. Gloss. Words Sheffield Lay, to mix; only used in the phrase ‘to lay leaven’, i.e. to mix the yeast with oat-meal in making oat-cake. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Lay, to mix dough for bread making. ‘Lay the breed’—to mix the flour with the yeast, to make the dough. to lay (also put) leaven(s) In 16th to 18th centuries often plural; also in †to lay (also put) leaven(s).extracted from leavenn.< as lemmas |
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