单词 | trug |
释义 | trugn.1 1. A former local measure of capacity for wheat, equal to two-thirds of a bushel (approx. 24 litres, 5 gallons). English regional in later use. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > dry measure > specific dry measure units > bushel > two-thirds of a bushel trug1397 1397 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: C 145/263/3) iiijxxvj. quarterios frumenti precium quarterii vj. s...lij. quarterios auene precium quarterii iij. s...v plaustratros feni precium in toto xxvj. s. viij. d. quandam mensuram vocatam Trugg precium iiij. s. 1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Trug, three trugs make two bushels. 1913 E. M. Wright Rustic Speech & Folk-lore xx. 329 A trug..is a measure of wheat of which three go to make up two bushels. 2. English regional. A container, typically shallow and made of wood; spec. (chiefly south-eastern) a tray or pan for milk; (also) spec. (Cumberland) a coal box or scuttle. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun] > tray tray10.. board?c1475 trug1599 losseta1650 backet1756 1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. 219/3 Servidór, a seruant, a close stoole, a trey or trugge. 1600 in W. F. Shaw Mem. Eastry (1870) 226 Item in the mylke house..two dowsin of bowles and Truggs. 1630 Will W. Buncker (C. C. Canterb. MS) Two milke trugges [and] two milk boules. 1673 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 77 A Trug, a tray for milk or the like, Suss. Dial. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Trugg, (Country-Word) a Milk-Tray or such like Vessel, a Hod to carry Mortar in. 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Ash Trug, a coal scuttle. Cumb. 1850 E. Dobson Rudimentary Treat. Manuf. Bricks & Tiles ii. vi. 57 A trug or trough, in which the moulder dips his hands when moulding. 1873 R. Ferguson Dial. Cumberland 156 Trug, a wooden coal-box. 1957 H. Hall Parish's Dict. Sussex Dial. (new ed.) 145/1 Trugg, a milk tray, or ‘Hastings basket’. 1994 C. Upton et al. Surv. Eng. Dial.: Dict. & Gram. Trug, a wooden, egg-shaped container for carrying horse-feed. K[ent]. 3. Originally English regional (Sussex). A shallow oblong basket made of wooden strips, typically used for carrying fruit and vegetables, garden weeds, etc. Also more fully trug-basket. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > basket > for fruit or vegetables fraila1382 top1440 tapnet1524 fig-frail1608 flat1640 raisin frail1669 chip basket1758 pottle1771 sievea1800 punnet1822 trug1836 bodge1876 molly1883 handle1900 1836 W. D. Cooper Gloss. Provinc. Sussex 32 Trug-basket, a wooden basket for carrying chips or vegetables. 1862 M. A. Lower in Athenæum 30 Aug. 281/1 He gathers up his weeds and rubbish into a trug-basket.., a vessel..almost peculiar to the county of Sussex. 1882 Athenæum 26 Aug. 271/2 A Sussex trug..is a flat basket, not of wicker, but of flakes of sallow, braced with ash and furnished with a handle of the latter wood bent over from side to side. 1909 Spectator 10 July 49/1 She descends with a huge wooden trug half filled with maize. 1990 B. Moore Lies of Silence viii. 161 She would be pulling off her gardening gloves and putting them in a trug which she carried like a handbag. 2005 Country Living Apr. 18/1 Ideal for collecting vegetables or cut flowers from the garden, this shapely Chelsea trug is made from ash. Compounds Designating corn (wheat) due as tithe or a similar payment, as trug corn, trug wheat. Now historical.All the quotations allude to a particular custom in the parish of Leominster, Herefordshire. ΚΠ 1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. (at cited word) At Lempster at this day the Vicar has Trug Corn allow'd him for Officiating at some Chappels of ease. 1795 J. Price Hist. Acct. Leominster 163 Stoke. This is but a chapelry... The Vicar's Revenue is called Trug Corn. 1866 Notes & Queries 3rd Ser. 10 415/2 There is in the parish of Leominster, a payment of the nature of tithe, which is known as trug-wheat. 1948 H. L. V. Fletcher Herefordshire x. 160 The Rector of Leominster, in return for officiating at the chapels of ease at Stoke and Dockelow, was entitled to Trug Wheat, a trug being a twelfth of a horse-load of corn. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). trugn.2 Now archaic and rare. A female prostitute. Perhaps occasionally also: a male prostitute. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute meretrixOE whoreOE soiled dovea1250 common womanc1330 putec1384 bordel womanc1405 putaina1425 brothelc1450 harlot?a1475 public womanc1510 naughty pack?1529 draba1533 cat1535 strange woman1535 stew1552 causey-paikera1555 putanie?1566 drivelling1570 twigger1573 punka1575 hackney1579 customer1583 commodity1591 streetwalker1591 traffic1591 trug1591 hackster1592 polecat1593 stale1593 mermaid1595 medlar1597 occupant1598 Paphian1598 Winchester goose1598 pagan1600 hell-moth1602 aunt1604 moll1604 prostitution1605 community1606 miss1606 night-worm1606 bat1607 croshabell1607 prostitute1607 pug1607 venturer1607 nag1608 curtal1611 jumbler1611 land-frigate1611 walk-street1611 doll-common1612 turn-up1612 barber's chaira1616 commonera1616 public commonera1616 trader1615 venturea1616 stewpot1616 tweak1617 carry-knave1623 prostibule1623 fling-dusta1625 mar-taila1625 night-shadea1625 waistcoateera1625 night trader1630 coolera1632 meretrician1631 painted ladya1637 treadle1638 buttock1641 night-walker1648 mob?1650 lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651 lady of pleasure1652 trugmullion1654 fallen woman1659 girlc1662 high-flyer1663 fireship1665 quaedama1670 small girl1671 visor-mask1672 vizard-mask1672 bulker1673 marmalade-madam1674 town miss1675 town woman1675 lady of the night1677 mawks1677 fling-stink1679 Whetstone whore1684 man-leech1687 nocturnal1693 hack1699 strum1699 fille de joie1705 market-dame1706 screw1725 girl of (the) town1733 Cytherean1751 street girl1764 monnisher1765 lady of easy virtue1766 woman (also lady) of the town1766 kennel-nymph1771 chicken1782 stargazer1785 loose fish1809 receiver general1811 Cyprian1819 mollya1822 dolly-mop1834 hooker1845 charver1846 tail1846 horse-breaker1861 professional1862 flagger1865 cocodette1867 cocotte1867 queen's woman1871 common prostitute1875 joro1884 geisha1887 horizontal1888 flossy1893 moth1896 girl of the pavement1900 pross1902 prossie1902 pusher1902 split-arse mechanic1903 broad1914 shawl1922 bum1923 quiff1923 hustler1924 lady of the evening1924 prostie1926 working girl1928 prostisciutto1930 maggie1932 brass1934 brass nail1934 mud kicker1934 scupper1935 model1936 poule de luxe1937 pro1937 chromo1941 Tom1941 pan-pan1949 twopenny upright1958 scrubber1959 slack1959 yum-yum girl1960 Suzie Wong1962 mattress1964 jamette1965 ho1966 sex worker1971 pavement princess1976 parlour girl1979 crack whore1990 1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. E3 They..haue yong trugges in their house which are consortes to these Lifts and loue them so deere, that they neuer leaue them till they come to the gallowes. 1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. G You Tom tapster..haue your trugges to draw men on to villanie. ?1609 J. Healey tr. Bp. J. Hall Discouery New World iii. vii. 194 Euery other house keepes sale Trugges or Ganymedes [L. siue pueris, siue fœminis meritoriis]. 1630 J. Taylor Bawd in Wks. ii. 93/2 A cursed Catalogue of these veneriall Caterpillers,..with the number of trugs which each of them kept. 1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies iii. 20 Would you have a true survey of his family..? you shall finde them subsist of three heads: Himselfe, his Truck, and her Misset. 1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words Trug, a trull, low female companion. 1993 P. Ackroyd House of Dr. Dee (1994) 241 That stall, that trug, has once more put some suspicious construction on my words. 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