单词 | tolling |
释义 | tollingtolingn.1 Now dialect and U.S. a. The action of enticing, allurement; †incitement, instigation (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [noun] tightingc1000 tolling?c1225 ticement1303 enticinga1340 ticinga1400 atticement1483 allure1534 luring1547 enticement1549 allurement1561 allurance1574 alluring1579 illurement1582 attraction1591 lurement1592 till1596 invitation1602 tract1620 illecebration1624 prolectation1625 invitement1627 inescation1645 inveiglement1653 allectation1656 tracture1658 solicitation1676 drumming1833 come-hither1835 chemistry1898 come-hitherness1918 the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation puttingOE sleatinga1122 eggingc1200 pricking?c1225 enticement1303 movinga1382 eggmentc1386 stirring1399 instinct1412 instigationc1422 motiona1425 provocationa1425 coyingc1440 ertingc1440 tollingc1440 artation1441 incitation1477 instinction1490 inhortationc1503 stimulation1526 abetment1533 onsetting1541 provokement?1545 incitament1579 stirring?c1580 irritation1589 incitement1594 spurring1611 to give foment to1613 fomenting1615 prompturea1616 proritation1615 urgea1618 exstimulation1626 fomentation1633 instinctment1661 spurning1672 impulsing1885 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 92 Is wowunge efter godes grome & tollunge of his eorre. c1330 Arth. & Merl. (Kölbing) 5304 Bot Wawain, þat bi him cam, & he him of his tolling nam. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 496/1 Tollynge, styrynge, or mevynge to good or badde, instigacio, excitacio. 1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) i. x. 41/2 Suche richesses of clothynge of the ymages is but a tollynge of more offrynge. b. spec. The luring or decoying of wild animals, as ducks or fish (see toll v.1 2); also attributive. U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun] > trapping or snaring telding?c1225 snaringc1440 snarlingc1440 wiring1809 tolling1838 trapping1867 noosing1878 1838 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. IV. 6 The usual mode of taking these birds has been..by toling, as it is strangely termed, an operation by which the ducks are sometimes induced to approach within a few feet of the shore. 1858 E. J. Lewis in W. Youatt Dog (N.Y. ed.) iii. 90 The toling season continues about three weeks from the first appearance of the ducks. 18.. Atwood in Goode Amer. Fishes (1888) 180 The present mode of catching mackerel by drifting and tolling with bait did not come into general use until 1812. 1879 Dogs Great Brit. & Amer. 271 The system pursued on the Chesapeake Bay and the North Carolina Sounds, and known as ‘toling’, is the most successful... A small dog..is trained to run up and down on the shore in the sight of the ducks. 1901 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 692/2 The judicious ‘hough’, ‘hough’ or tolling-call of the hunter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2019). tollingn.2 a. The action of toll v.2; the sounding of a large bell by slow regularly repeated strokes; esp. that of the passing-bell. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > bell-ringing > [noun] bell-ringOE ringingc1300 bell-ringingc1350 knoll1379 toll1452 tollinga1513 jowing1516 round ringinga1661 tintinnabulism1826 clocking1863 clappering1874 tintinnabulation1883 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of bell > large bell knoll1379 toll1452 knolling1480 tollinga1513 tonging1584 thief and reever bell1777 bell-toll1860 donga1882 tong1881 a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xxxv By tollyng of the great Belle of Paules, all the Cytie shuld be redy shortly in harneys to gyue attendaunce. 1526 in H. T. Ellacombe Church Bells Devon (1872) 463 The clerke to have for tollynge of the passynge belle,..if it be in the day, 0s. 4d. a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) iii. 36 I'me afraid the towling of the Bell will wake her agen. 1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer iv. 69 My Fancy tuned so the Bell, As if her Towlings did the story tell Of my mortality. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 14. ⁋5 I..have not missed tolling in to Prayers six times in all those Years. 1874 E. B. Denison Clocks & Watches & Bells (ed. 6) 359 The great superiority of tone of bells ringing in full swing over tolling, and even of tolling over striking by a clock hammer, has been often noticed. b. transferred. A sound resembling this; spec. (Scottish) a special humming sound made by the queen bee before swarming (see quots. 1747, 1808). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > queen bee > sound made by tolling1747 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > sound made by > making sound abayc1330 yearning1531 babbling1568 earning?1578 chiding1600 opening1662 tonguing1851 tolling1869 1747 R. Maxwell Pract. Bee-master 46 This Sound, commonly called Towling, proceeds, I suppose, from the young King, giving Signal to his Company to make ready for a March. 1808 Edinb. Encycl. (1830) II. 414/1 Most observers..affirm, that in the evening before swarming an uncommon humming or buzzing is heard in the hive, and a distinct sound from the queen, called tolling or calling. 1869 Sir V. Brooke in Life (1894) 162 Nearer and nearer came the tolling of the grand old hound. Compounds tolling-lever n. a lever attached to a bell or to the clapper by means of which the bell is tolled: see quot. 1874. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [noun] > other parts yokeOE stirrup1341 cod1379 bell-string1464 frame1474 stock1474 ear1484 poop1507 bell-wheel1529 skirt1555 guarder1583 imp1595 tab1607 jennet1615 pluck1637 bell-rope1638 cagea1640 cannon1668 stilt1672 canon1688 crown1688 sound-bow1688 belfry1753 furniture1756 sounding bow1756 earlet1833 brima1849 busk-board1851 headstock1851 sally hole1851 slider1871 mushroom head1872 sally beam1872 pit1874 tolling-lever1874 sally-pin1879 sally-pulley1901 sally-wheel1901 1874 E. B. Denison Clocks & Watches & Bells (ed. 6) 357 Tolling-levers.—The great Worcester bell is hung on wedge-shaped gudgeons.., to enable it to be tolled, almost without friction, by a long lever; for the tower would not bear it in full swing... But..it answers equally well to toll it by a short lever..projecting from the top of the clapper, and pulled by a slight rope. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2020). tollingn.3 Now rare. The action of toll v.3; the taking or levying of toll; also payment to hop-pickers at so many bushels a shilling. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > [noun] > exacting or collecting tollinga1350 perception?a1475 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] tollinga1350 customing1433 tollagea1513 toll-gathering1577 toll-taking1611 excise1710 tariffication1892 a1350 St. Matthew 416 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 136 Saint Mathew..A toller was..With tolling mikell gude he gat. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 496/1 Tollynge, of myllarys, multura. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. xxxv Brybours and Baylyes that lyue vpon towlynge. 1546 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 179 The untrewe and excessyve tollinge of certayne quarters of wheate meale. 1562 Bp. J. Pilkington Expos. Abdyas 129 As though he were set to gather up Christs tolling money. 1886 J. Craig Tollman's Lament in R. Ford Harp Perthshire (1893) 346 Whan first my tollin' days began. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Oct. 5/1 If hops are pretty good, however, and the ‘tolling’ not too low—say, six bushels a shilling—an average hopper can live like a lord. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Oct. 5/2 When the hops are large and plentiful the farmer may commence his ‘tolling’ at twelve a shilling. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019). tollingtolingadj.1 Now dialect and U.S. That ‘tolls’; enticing, alluring; spec. used as a decoy (see toll v.1 2). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [adjective] tolling?c1225 ticinga1400 allectivec1487 illecebrous1531 alluring1534 tracting1535 wooing1549 enticing1553 training1557 tittling1560 luring1570 adamantine1581 baiting1585 winning1596 attractive1600 adamantic1605 adamantive1605 enticeable1607 soliciting1608 magnetic1611 invitinga1616 allurant1631 inescating1633 invitative1634 magnetical1638 invitatory1646 tractive1658 odalisque1837 Pied Piper1869 lureful1887 follow-me1888 luresome1889 come-hitherish1901 come-hither1905 come-hithery1919 invitational1922 come-hithering1935 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 41 For nabbe ȝe naut to nome..of totinde ancren ne of tollinde lokunges. 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 7 His own title; hung out like a toling signe-post to call passengers. 1868 R. B. Roosevelt Florida & Game Water Birds 336 Red is selected by the Southerners for their tolling dogs, but this is with the purpose of making them attractive. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2019). tollingadj.2 That tolls, as a bell. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [adjective] > sound of bells tinglingc1450 jingling1558 chiming1648 knelling1662 tolling1728 clinking1871 1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 208 With horns and trumpets now to madness swell, Now sink in sorrows with a tolling Bell. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021). tollingadj.3 Now rare. Taking toll; tax-gathering. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [adjective] tolling1641 excising1733 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 110 A greedy Wolfe, a tolling Publicane. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1?c1225n.2a1513n.3a1350adj.1?c1225adj.21728adj.31641 |
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