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单词 turkis
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turkisturkesturkessen.

Brit. /ˈtəːkᵻs/, U.S. /ˈtərkəs/, Scottish English /ˈtʌrkᵻs/
Forms: Middle English thourkeys, ScottishMiddle English–1500s turkas, 1500s turkass, turkes, turcase, turcas, 1600s turkesse, 1800s turkis.
Etymology: < Old French turcaise, -quaise, -queise, turquoise (14–15th cent.), terquoise, truquaise, trucoise, modern French tricoises, feminine plural of turcois, -queis, -quois Turkish; prop. tenailles turquoises, Turkish nippers.
Chiefly, now only, Scottish dialect.
A pair of smith's pincers; pincers or nippers generally; forceps.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > tongs or pincers
tongsc725
tongsc890
pinsons1356
turkis1390
pincersa1400
twitches?a1425
pinching iron1519
pincette?1533
spinsers1539
pincher1573
twitcher1573
tenailles1597
quitch1600
tenalia1603
forceps1634
vellicle1676
snapdragon1833
1390–1 Earl Derby's Exped. (Camden) 35 Pro j pare de thourkeys, xij d.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vi. l. 411 He gert a smyth with his turkas rycht thar Pow out his eyne.
1503–4 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 419 Ane turcas to tak out teith.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid viii. vii. 185 Wyth the grippand turkas [v.r. turkes] oft also The glowand lump thai turnit to and fro.
1591 News fr. Scot. (1820) 33 His nailes upon all his fingers were riven and pulled off with an instrument called in Scottich a Turkas, which in England we call a pair of pincers.
1629 Z. Boyd Last Battell Soule (new ed.) 534 Like a tooth in the jaw, the deeper roote it hath, the more paine it causeth, when it is drawing out with the Turkesse.
1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xxvii. 200 There's yersel', 't ken's nae mair aboot the prenciples o' the struggle nor that turkis i' the Smith's sheein' [= shoeing] box.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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