单词 | well bucket |
释义 | well bucketn. A bucket used to draw water from a well by means of a rope and pulley or a windlass.Sometimes one of a pair of buckets on either end of a rope, arranged so that the empty one may be lowered while the filled one is raised. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > for raising water well bucket1477 flail?a1500 kettle-mill1570 scoop1580 water engine1611 chain-pumpa1618 cochlea1648 water-screw1648 engine1652 bucket-fountain1663 chain1682 noria1696 tub-engine1702 tub-gin1702 well-pole1727 screw engine1729 rag1747 rag pump1747 swape1773 picotah1780 water balance1800 ram1801 well sweep1818 shadoof1836 hydraulic belt1856 water carrier1875 bailer1883 trip-bucket1926 1477–9 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 82 Ffor a welbokette to harry Williamsons well, and for byndynge of the same, iij s ij d. 1544 Inventory in Surrey Archæol. Coll. (1880) VII. 240 Itm a Well Bukket wt a rope & a Cheyne, xijd. 1580 in J. Raine Fabric Rolls York Minster (1859) 117 For makinge a tyrret and a rynge of yron to the masons well buckett, 10 d. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 296/2 He beareth Argent, a Bucket, Sable, the Handle and Hoops, Or. This is termed for distinction, a Well Bucket. 1695 J. Dryden tr. R. de Piles in tr. C. A. Du Fresnoy De Arte Graphica 120 The Muscles..are so many Well-buckets; when one of them acts and draws, 'tis necessary that the other must obey. 1709 Brit. Apollo 13–15 Apr. You like two Well-Buckets Appear, Which always must clash when they're near. 1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 389 Stops, small well-buckets. 1823 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 13 Sept. 668 I saw a large well-bucket, and all the chains and wheels belonging to such a concern. 1895 Leavenworth (Kansas) Herald 9 Mar. In the winter of 1872 their well bucket froze tight in their well twelve feet below the surface. 1962 M. Montgomery Wandering of Desire i. 35 When they had each tilted the well bucket and drunk some of the fresh water,..they walked around the house to Doc's car. 2002 B. Boyd Stepdaddy xv. 214 Billy Joe pointed to the well bucket, and when the woman did not move, he grabbed it from the edge of the well, unhooked the rope and dropped it until he heard a splash. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1477 |
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