单词 | bushaile |
释义 | † bushailen. Obsolete. a. A copse or thicket; often as a place of concealment, an ambush. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > hostile lying in wait > place of ambush > a thicket bushc1330 bushailea1400 a1400 Octouian 1607 Besyde Acrys, yn a boschayle They token rest. ?a1400 Morte Arthur 895 On blonkez by ȝone buscayle. ?a1400 Morte Arthur 1634 They buskede theme..In the buskayle of his waye. c1430 Syr Gener. 9189 Thei..come out of here busshaile Streight forto bede hem bataile. b. collective. Brushwood, underwood. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > brushwood, scrub, or underwood ronea1300 underwooda1325 rammel1338 brushetc1380 scroga1400 bushailec1400 frithing1429 brushal1430 brushc1440 ronec1440 thevec1440 garsil1483 shroga1500 cablish1594 south-bois1598 undergrowth1600 frith1605 hand timber1664 subbois1664 urith1671 brushwood1732 bush-wood1771 underbrush1775 slop1784 woodiness1796 scrub1805 shag1836 chaparral1845 underbush1849 underscrub1870 sand-brush1871 buck-brush1874 bush1879 horizontal scrub1888 tangle-wood1894 shin-tangle1905 c1400 Mandeville's Trav. xxvii. 271 A gret yle fulle of Trees and Buscaylle. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. xxvii. 271 Buscaylle & Thornes & Breres & grene Grasse. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1400 |
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