单词 | turkis |
释义 | turkisturkesturkessen. Chiefly, now only, Scottish dialect. A pair of smith's pincers; pincers or nippers generally; forceps. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1390 |
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