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单词 to prick on a clout
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to prick on a clout
P1. to prick on a clout and variants: to sew. Also as noun phrase. Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (intransitive)] > sew
sewc1450
to prick on a clout1584
stitch1697
needle1834
steek1865
1584 J. Lyly Alexander, Campaspe, & Diogenes v. iv. sig. F3v The one pricking in cloutes haue nothing els to thinke on.
1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie i. iii. sig. B2 My daughter..shall prick on a clout till her fingers ake.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 274 Women..liue an idle and sedentarie life, pricking for the most part vppon a clout.
1685 H. Bold & W. Bold tr. in Latine Songs xx. 76 Those Lasses nice and strange, That keep shops in the Change, Sit pricking of Clouts, And giving of flouts, They seldom abroad do range.
1760 Good Housewife's Coat Arms (single sheet) There were Gossips and Tatlers, Never-work, Prick-clout, With Danner and Panner, and Toss-cap-about.
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. xii. 269 Ye prick-the-clout loon.
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