单词 | windpipe |
释义 | windpipen. 1. The tube which leads from the throat and (dividing into the two bronchi) conveys air to and from the lungs in breathing: = trachea n. 1a †Formerly also plural = the trachea and bronchi collectively. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > [noun] > respiratory passages pipec1385 suspiralc1400 windpipe1530 spirator1657 air passage1771 respiratory tract1831 airway1856 the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > [noun] > respiratory passages > wind-pipe arberc1330 stroup1338 arterya1398 string1398 weasand1398 tracheac1400 thrapple?c1425 throat-goll1530 windpipe1530 weezle1538 weasand-pipe1544 throat pipe?1559 lung-pipe1562 whistlea1625 weezle-pipe1632 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 289/1 Wyndpype, sifflet de gosier. 1538 J. Bale Tragedye Promyses God iii. C ij Stoppe not my wynde pypes, but geue them lyberte, To sounde to thy name. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Arteria Aspera arteria, the wine pipe [sic]. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xv. 69 The cowgh: which commeth of some cold distemperature in the windepipes. a1680 J. Bargrave Pope Alexander VII (1867) i. v. 12 Their heads, with the livers and lungs hanging by the wine-pipes [sic]. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1777 II. 150 When one considers what variety of sounds can be uttered by the wind-pipe, in the compass of a very small aperture. 1866 R. M. Ballantyne Shifting Winds ii. 18 There was only just sufficient opening in the wind-pipe to permit of her breath passing..through her..mouth. 1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 531 The Whooping Crane has a windpipe between four and five feet long—quite as long as the bird itself. 2. An artificial pipe or tube for conducting a blast of air. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [noun] > device for producing blast of air > pipe pluff1525 blowpipe1685 windpipe1688 phukni1959 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. v. 259/1 A Pair of Bellows..; the Wind Pipe erected. 1689 Bp. G. Burnet Tracts I. 94 A hole [let into a hill] which all the Summer long blows a fresh Air into the Cellar..but this Wind-pipe did not blow when I was there. Compounds windpipe-stretcher n. jocular a hangman. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > hangman boiec1320 hangman1393 hangerc1430 lockman1488 burrioc1540 bourreauc1550 burriourc1550 derrickc1600 passport-maker1602 topman1607 derrick-jastro?1609 verdugo1616 windpipe-stretcher1617 Gregorya1658 locksman1682 Ketch1685 Jack Ketch1696 finisher of the law1708 topsman1825 scrag-boy1843 scragger1897 1617 J. Taylor Three Weekes Obseruations B 4 b Our Wapping windpipe-stretcher. windpipe sweetbread n. the thyroid gland (of a calf) used as food. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > beef > [noun] > veal > cuts or parts calf's-foot1620 veal cutlet1728 windpipe sweetbreada1756 noix1845 schnitzel1854 a1756 E. Haywood New Present (1771) 19 The fore-quarter [of veal] contains the shoulder, neck, and breast, the throat sweet-bread, and the windpipe sweetbread. Derivatives ˈwindpipe v. (transitive) to utter through the windpipe, to ‘pipe’.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > in thin or weak voice pipec1450 windpipe1895 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > impart specific tone or quality [verb (transitive)] > utter in thin or weak voice pipec1450 windpipe1895 1895 G. Meredith Amazing Marriage II. xlv. 241 The three guardian ladies..headed over the..town..windpiping these and similar Solan notes. ˈwindpiped adj. /-paɪpt/ supplied with pipes figured as windpipes.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > conducting of water, etc., by channels or pipes > plumbing and pipework > [adjective] > supplied with pipes windpiped1860 reticulated1877 1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table x A city, water-veined and gas windpiped. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1530 |
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