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单词 trevally
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trevallyn.1

Forms: 1600s trevall, ( travailler), travalley, 1600s–1700s travally, 1600s, 1800s dialect trevally.
Etymology: perhaps a corruption of reveille n.
Obsolete or dialect.
1. A signal made by beating the drum; also attributive, trevally-beat. Also transferred.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > signals > [noun] > signal on instrument > signal on drums
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trevally1645
troop1688
générale1698
general1706
retreat1706
long roll1756
rappel1796
parley1867
assemble1883
1645 R. Symonds Diary (1859) 224 When the trevall was beate, and they lett downe their bridge for their scouts.
1675 J. Crowne Countrey Wit ii. 25 Beat a Travalley on the Drums of their ears.
1685 B. Ringrose Bucaniers Amer. iv. 10 We heard..a small arm discharged, and after that a drum beating a Travailler.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xix. 154/2 The seuerall Beates or points of warre are these..14 A Revally, or Trevally, and ruvalley.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 144 The next Morning I..Landed presently after Travally-Beat.
1789 J. O'Keeffe Highland Reel i. ii Your rattan would be the drumstick of the corps, to beat the travally on my back—row-dy-dow!
2. A disturbance, a noisy ‘to-do’.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > confused sound > [noun] > uproar or tumult
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ludea1275
ludingc1275
grede13..
to-doc1330
stevenc1385
ruitc1390
shoutingc1405
rumourc1425
dirdumc1440
shout1487
rippit?1507
glamer?a1513
rangat?a1513
reird?a1513
larumc1515
reirdour1535
uproar1544
clamouring1548
racket1565
baldare1582
rack jack1582
rufflery1582
pother1603
rut1607
clamorousnessa1617
hurricane1639
clutter1656
flaw1676
splutter1677
rout1684
hirdum-dirdum1724
fracas1727
collieshangie1737
racketing1760
hullabaloo1762
hurly1806
bobbery1816
trevally1819
pandemonium1827
hurly-burly1830
outroar1845
on-ding1871
tow-row1877
ruckus1885
molrowing1892
rookus1892
rux1918
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [noun] > (a) noisy
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hubbleshowa1525
burlinga1533
hubble-shubblec1550
burle1563
coil1567
hirdy-girdy1568
riff-raff1582
rut1607
hubbuba1625
clutter1656
sputter1673
splutter1677
rattle1688
rumpus1745
ree-raw1797
bobbery1816
trevally1819
stramash1821
nitty1822
hell's delight1823
pandemonium1827
oration1828
Bob's-a-dying1829
hubbaboo1830
reerie1832
circus1869
tow-row1877
ruaille buaille1885
brouhaha1890
foofaraw1933
bangarang1943
bassa-bassa1956
1819 St. Patrick I. 162 (Jam.) Gin ye could airt me tae ane o' them [runnigates], we wad let you see a fine trevallie.
1866 Kennedy Irish Celts 19 (E.D.D.) There was such a thravally ruz..about it.
1881 Cumberland Gloss. Trevally, disturbance, quarrelling.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

trevallyn.2

Forms: Also trevalley, trevalli, trevalla, travalley, travale.
Etymology: Supposed to be an alteration of cavally n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: treˈvally.
A name applied in Australasia to several sea-fishes, mostly of the family Carangidæ or Horse-Mackerels. Six species of Caranx, Neptonemus, and Teuthis, to which the name is applied, are enumerated by Morris Austral English.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Scombroidei (mackerel) > [noun] > family Carangidae (scads) > member of
yellowtaila1622
cavally1634
horse-mackerela1705
yellow jack1851
carangoid1863
trevally1883
carangid1889
turrum1936
1883 E. P. Ramsay Food Fishes New S. Wales 20 The white trevally, Caranx georgianus,..on the New South Wales coast..seldom..weighing over 1½ to 2 lbs., is found on the shores of Queensland of a much greater size.
1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 184 The Collection also contains..the..‘Trevalley’.
1886 R. A. A. Sherrin Handbk. Fishes N.Z. 99 Dr. Hector says: ‘The trevalli is the arara of the Maoris, or the trevalli or cavalli of the fishermen... The fish known as trevalli in the Dunedin district is a different fish.’
1890 Victorian Statutes, Fisheries Act Schedule 2 Travale.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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