单词 | yale |
释义 | yalen.1 A fabulous beast with horns and tusks, perhaps the two-horned rhinoceros; used in Heraldry (see quot. 19101). ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > miscellaneous types of calesc1300 yalec1425 tiger1481 su1568 succarath1594 rhinocerot1613 bunyip1848 bandersnatch1871 Omophore1871 taotie1915 pushmi-pullyu1922 shmoo1948 kaiju1972 society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [noun] > monsters dragonc1330 griffina1400 yalec1425 mermaid1445 manticorec1470 cockatrice1513 mermaiden1538 opinicus1546 lituit1562 Pegasus1562 equicerve1572 harpy1572 lyciske1572 verme1572 wyver1599 merman1601 lion-dragon1610 lion-poisson1610 wyvern1610 Sagittarius1619 sagittary1632 man-fish1653 sea lion1661 satyral1724 man-tiger1780 sea-dog1780 Welsh dragon1799 camelopardel1830 satyr1845 serpivolant1866 sea monkey1909 c1425 Wyntoun Cron. i. ix. 754 In to þat lande [sc. India] þai say sulde be Ane oþer best, callyt Eale [v.r. Ane oþir beist is callit Gaill Into þat land forouttin faill], Þat is lik al til a hors..And has a gret tusk as a bare..And in his hewide ar hornys twa. 1536 in Archaeologia (1910) 62 LXII. 311 Paid to Ric. Rydge..for lyke cuttyng carvyng..and makyng of..and jall and Iunecorne a dragon, a lyan a greyhonde [etc.] 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. viii. xxi. 206. ] a1660 Aphorismical Discov. in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1879) I. 264 The Ethiopian yeale hath two hornes of a cubit longe. 1910 Archaeologia 313 The jall or yale..is a rare and strange animal partaking of the nature of the heraldic antelope, that is to say, wearing horns and a large pair of projecting tusks:..and he is silver bezanty, that is, white with yellow spots. He is one of the supporters of the Dukes of Somerset. 1910 Archaeologia 314 (note) The yale occurs as one of the supporters of the arms of the Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). Yalen.2 a. A proprietary name for locks and keys, used esp. to denote a lock with a cylindrical barrel that can be turned only when a key with a specially serrated edge is inserted so as to displace a number of pins by the correct distances (invented by Linus Yale). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > lock > and key > type of Yale1869 1869 Price List of Yale Lock Manfg. Co. 3 The manufacturers of the Yale Locks desire to say a few words in relation to the recent changes in their organization, location and prices. 1875 Iron Age 1 July 10/1 (advt.) Yale locks for all uses. 1885 Trade Marks Jrnl. 15 Apr. 346 Yale. The Yale and Towne Manufacturing Company (Incorporated), Stamford, Connecticut... Locks. Bronze hardware. 1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 375/2 Yale pattern night lock. 1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 382/1 Yale padlocks. 1907 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 7 May 437/1 The Yale & Towne Mfg. Co., Stamford, Conn... Yale... Locks and keys. 1920 W. J. Locke House of Baltazar xxv. 306 The little brass Yale latchkey. 1930 W. de la Mare On the Edge 11 The Yale gear-key which usually lay in the little recess to the left of the dash-board was missing. 1949 M. Mead Male & Female v. 114 Each small family is so isolated from others that no one knows how peculiar or how usual are..the behaviours that are shut behind each Yale lock. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XI. 12/1 Magnetic forces can be used in locks working on the Yale principle. 1974 S. B. Hough Fear Fortune, Father vi. 45 It was a Yale key and the back door had a Yale lock. 1976 C. G. Smith Let. in Daily Mail 28 May 35/2 Yale is a registered trade-mark and in no way refers to one particular lock. Since 1949 we have specialised in marketing automatic, semi-automatic and double-locking night-latches, engineered to foil the glass-breaking and bolt-forcing intruder. b. elliptical. ΚΠ 1918 G. Frankau One of Them xxx. 235 Where each man's latchkey fits his neighbours' Yales. 1954 R. Macaulay Let. 14 Mar. in Last Lett. to Friend (1962) 148 I have changed my lock, but they can pick ‘Yales’. 1983 Oxf. Consumer Autumn 11/2 Your cylinder-lock (what people are apt to call a ‘Yale’, whether it is actually made by the Yale Co. Ltd. or not). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1c1425n.21869 |
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