单词 | toze |
释义 | † tozetosev.1 Obsolete exc. dialect. a. transitive. To pull asunder; to separate or unravel the fibres of; to comb or card (wool, etc.); = tease v.1 1. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [verb (transitive)] > comb tozea1250 kemba1300 card1333 comb1577 gill1864 a1250 Owl & Night. 70 Þe sulue mose..wolde þe totose. 1346 Litt. Red Bk. Bristol (1900) II. 2 Item si fila deficiant in panno vel quod nimis distent quod textores appellant tosed. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 17 And what Schep that is full of wulle Upon his back, thei toose and pulle, Whil ther is eny thing to pile. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 41 A good quantite of tow I-tosid. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 497/2 Toson wulle or other lyke [v.r. tosyn or tose wul], carpo. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 760/1 I toose wolle, or cotton, or suche lyke, je force de la laine, and je charpis de la laine. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xiv. f. 177 What toozing wooll did meene. ?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 55 Manye..may pick wooll, and sow garments, or tose Okam. 1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1668) ii. v. 123 Toase it every lock by lock. 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xliiii. 104 Peeces of a Iunke or Rope, chopped very small,..and after tozed all as Oacombe. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 42 The Internal parts..were..as it were, tos'd open like a Lock of Wool. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Mixing Colours Wool..must be taken out and toas'd over-again: for the first Toasing was to make it receive the Colour or Die; but the second is to..make it fit for Spinning. 1881 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Suppl. at Tag Snip the end off the tag, an' toze it well as the grace can get among it. b. transferred. To pull, pull about. (Cf. touse n.) ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull > about toilc1300 to-tollc1325 to-lug1362 to-halea1387 toze14.. tugglec1440 to-drawc1450 behale1574 lugger1654 14.. Sir Beues 1952 + 2 (MS. M) That they were in the grene wose, And I shold hem well tose. 1573 T. Tusser Points Huswifrie (new ed.) f. 27v, in Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) For euery crime, What toesed eares, like bayted beares. c. figurative. To separate, search out; to analyse; to elicit, ‘tease out’. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > find out, discover [verb (transitive)] > as by sifting, teasing, etc. tozec1450 to pick out1523 to bolt out1545 sift1592 pumpa1637 incern1656 probe1699 mole1856 to winkle out1942 c1450 Cov. Myst. xlii. (1841) 401 The trewthe fful trewlye he wyl tose, And send ȝow to hevyn or helle. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 735 For that I insinuate, at toaze from thee thy Businesse. View more context for this quotation 1633 D. Rogers Treat. Two Sacraments Gospell ii. 44 Doe it more fully, toze your consciences. 1648 W. Jenkyn Ὁδηγος Τυϕλος i. 8 The spurious expositions..upon the Scriptures in his tedious tozing of them. Derivatives tozed adj. (also tosed) ΚΠ 1346Tosed [see sense a]. 14.. Noble Bk. Cookry (1882) 103 Charge it with the tosed flesshe. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 438/2 For euery sacke of toosed wolle .vii. markes. 1632 tr. G. Bruele Praxis Medicinæ 22 Dippe toosed Wooll herein. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > combing > one who carder1334 cardster1337 tozerc1440 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 497/2 Tosare, of wulle or other lyke, carptrix. Tosynge, of wulle or oþer thyngys, carptura. ΚΠ 1648Tozing [see sense c]. 1725Toasing [see sense a]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). tozev.2 Tin-mining. transitive. To separate tin ore from the gangue or rough ore by stirring the slimes in a kieve, and allowing the heavier particles to settle. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (transitive)] > dress ore stamp1568 shadder1582 craze1610 tye1757 spall1758 toze1758 trunk1758 concentrate1771 to griddle out1778 jig1778 puddle1963 1758 W. Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall 180 The coffer is then emptied the second time, the tin carried again to the keeve, there tozed, skimmed, and packed. 1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall xv. 577 Another let the tin ore fall into it [sc. the water] by degrees at the side of the keeve, where it was tozed (tossed), or stirred by the other until the vat was almost full. 1882 F. W. P. Jago Anc. Lang. & Dial. Cornwall Toas, or Toze, to shake or toss the wet tin to and fro in a kieve or vat, with water, to cleanse and dress it. Derivatives ˈtozer n. see quot. 1885; (also a Cornish surname). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > one who washes or dresses ore vanner1671 buddler1747 cobber1778 jigger1778 jigman1849 puddler1855 buddle-boy1860 spaller1884 tozer1885 stamps-man1891 gravitater1894 1885 Black's Guide to Cornwall (ed. 13) 54 Tozer, the man who tozes, stirs, or washes the crop-tin. ˈtozing n. the action of thus cleaning the ore; also in combination. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > excavating or dressing ore > dressing ore > specific methods or minerals spalling1758 tozing1789 concentration1835 trunking1838 concentrating1872 all-sliming1905 stampage1910 sliming1920 1758 W. Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall 179 The tin-ore is then sifted in a sieve purposely constructed, and if it needs must be sent to be buddled again, then returned to the keeve and worked as before with a shovel, which they call tozing the tin.] 1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom II. 210 They are obliged to take another method to clean it, which is called turloobing, or tozing. 1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom II. 212 The tozing operation. 1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 2603/2 Tossing, or Tozing, the operation of agitating ore in a kieve; a tub in which it is rotated in water by a stirrer on a vertical axis. tozing-tub n. the tub or kieve in which tin ore is tozed. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for treating ores > [noun] > for dressing ore > for tin tozing-tub1839 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1244 The rough is washed in buddles, and in tossing tubs. 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