单词 | wringle- |
释义 | wringle-comb. form the verb-stem used attributively in wringle-gut n., wringle-straw n. dialect, †wringle-tail (see quots.). Π 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 937 There is another Fly..which Pennius cals Curvicaudem [= curved tail], very well in English a Wringle-tail, in regard that..he bends his tail towards him with his sting started. 1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 84 Wringle-streas, or Straws,..Windle-Straws. 1777 in Eng. Dial. Dict. (at cited word) Wringle-gut, one who frets his guts to fiddle-strings by twisting and turning his body. 1857 C. B. Robinson Rural Econ. in Yorks. Gloss. 185 Windle-straw,..A grass..which, when shaken by the wind, has a peculiar whistling or ringling sound, whence one of its present names ‘ringle-straw’. It is..the briza or quaking grass. 1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness 160 Wringlesthreea,..a coarse grass. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < comb. form1658 |
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