| 单词 | cauk | 
| 释义 | caukn. Obsolete and dialect.   		 (a) = chalk n.   (dialect).		 †(b) Lime. Obsolete.		 (c) ? Calc spar.		 (d) Barytes, or heavy spar: see cawk n.1The quotations cannot easily be separated, but 1653–1729 are apparently in sense  (d). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > 			[noun]		 > chalk or limestone chalkc893 caukc1440 calcareous earth1757 the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > sulphates > 			[noun]		 > barium sulphate liverstone1587 ponderous spar1618 cauk1653 cawk1653 ponderous earth1780 baroselenite1786 barytes1789 heavy spar1789 terra ponderosa1794 hepatite1802 allomorphite1842 c1440    Promptorium Parvulorum 58  				Calke or chalke, erye, calx, creta. 1483    Cath. Angl. 51  				Calke, creta, calx. ?a1500    Nominale 		(Yale Beinecke 594)	 in  T. Wright  & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. 		(1884)	 I. 769  				Hec cals, a calkestone. c1540    J. Bellenden in  tr.  H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. sig. Bj  				This Ile wes callit Albion..fra the quhit montanis thairof full of calk. 1651    J. French Art Distillation  v. 154  				Take very strong lime, such as the dyers use, and call cauke. 1653    E. Manlove Liberties & Customes Lead-mines Derby 265  				Cauke, Sparr, Lid-Stones, Twitches, Daulings and Pees. 1685    R. Boyle Short Mem. Hist. Mineral Waters 21  				Other Ingredient as Spar, Cauke, Sulphur, Orpiment, Arsenick. 1699    A. de la Pryme Let. 22 July in  Diary 		(1870)	  i. 212  				Four squair bitts of brick, slate, and cauk, set in curious figueres. 1724    A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. 		(1733)	 I. 87  				Wi' cauk and keel I'll win your bread. 1730    J. Martyn in  Philos. Trans. 1729–30 		(Royal Soc.)	 36 31  				Cauk..Dr. Woodward says is a coarse talky Spar. 1816    W. Smith Strata Identified 10  				A singular variety..is there called red caulk. 1851    T. Tapping Gloss. in  Chron. Customs Lead Mines 		(E.D.S.)	  				Calk, calc, cauke, or calcareous spar, is the base mineral constituting with brownhen, etc. the deads or rubbish of a quick vein. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † caukv.1 Obsolete.   intransitive. To tread, to copulate as birds. Quots. 1486  –1575   are difficult: cf. cawk vb. at cawk n.2 Derivatives   to call as some birds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > 			[verb (intransitive)]		 > mate or copulate cauk1377 tread1486 mate1581 1377    W. Langland Piers Plowman B.  xi. 350  				Some bryddes at þe bille þorwgh brethynge conceyued; And some kauked. 1393    W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xv. 162  				He [kynde] tauhte þe tortle to trede, þe pokok to cauke. 1486    Bk. St. Albans A ij a  				Hawkis..in the tyme of their loue call and not kauke. 1575    G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 20  				When the Eagle beginneth to growe to lyking, neare cawking or calling time. Derivatives  ˈcauking  n. ΚΠ 1675    Philos. Trans. 		(Royal Soc.)	 10 466  				Her natural male dares not sit by her [the Peregrine falcon]..but only in cawking time. 1704    Dict. Rusticum  				Cawking-time; by this in the Art of Faulconry, is meant Hawks Treading-time. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). caukcawkv.2 Scottish.   To chalk v. ΚΠ 1725    A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd  iv. i  				I'll cawk my face..and shake my head. 1862    A. Hislop Prov. Scotl. 223  				Ye're cawking the claith, ere the wab be in the loom. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < | 
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