| 单词 | wey and bodkins |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswey and bodkins 3. A pole borne on the shoulders of two men, for carrying a water-vessel. ? Obsolete. Also wey and bodkins (dialect): see quot. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [noun] > by a person > pole or staff bot forka1350 bearing back1607 weigh1688 sastange1706 shoulder-pole1888 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xiv. 11/2 A Runge or Soe: which is a kind of vessell that Tanners, Glouers, and Beere-brewers use to carry Water in, being borne on a Way or pole betweene two men. 1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. Gloss. 368 Wey an' bodkins, a set of spreaders for hitching two horses to the same part of a sull or harrow. The first, the Wey, is fastened at its middle to the plough or harrow by a cops..and the bodkins are connected by a crook on their middle to clipses on the two ends of the wey. < as lemmas |
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