单词 | cauldron |
释义 | cauldronn. 1. A large kettle or boiler. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > cauldron or kettle kettlea700 leada1100 cauldronc1300 chetelc1300 stewc1305 chaldron1555 bashron1660 society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > vessel in which liquid is boiled > [noun] > cauldron leada1100 cauldronc1300 welling-lead1371 chaldron1555 witch's cauldron1762 set-pot1839 c1300 St. Brandan 158 Hi..soden hem fisch in a caudroun. c1320 Seuyn Sag. (W.) 2460 A gret boiland cauderoun. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xiii. 3 What shal comune the caudron to the pot? 1387 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 2 Þe gaudroun in þe kechyn. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxviii. 1375 Cacabus ‘a caudroun’ is a vessel of kechene. c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 662 Hoc caldarium, caldron. c1440 Anc. Cookery in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 433 Sethe it in a pot..or in a cawdron. c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Add. MS.) 381 A Cawderowne full of wellyng piche and brymstone. 1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 6 Pottes of coppre kawdrons. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. ii. 14 The Cauldron, or ketell, or panne, or pot. 1538 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 135 j of the brwynge cowderons. 1556 Inventory in G. R. French Shakspeareana Genealogica (1869) 471 In the kitchen..ij. cathernes. 1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 30 Thys yere [1521] was a man soddyne in a cautherne in Smythfelde..because he wold a poyssynd dyvers persons. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xii. 566/2 Fiue hundred Cawdrons made of beasts skins. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 11 Double, double, toile and trouble; Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 57 Some steep their Seed, and some in Cauldrons boil. View more context for this quotation 1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xv. 97 These will the Caldron, these the Tripod give. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. 289 For the poisoners of the soul there was the stake, for the poisoners of the body, the boiling cauldron. 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. vi. 121 (stage direct.) A great caldron, under which a fire is burning. 2. transferred. a. A natural formation suggesting a cauldron, in shape, or by the agitation of a contained fluid. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > other slack?a1400 swamp1691 cauldrona1763 hog wallow1829 tomo1859 kettle1866 pocket1869 dolina1882 kettle hole1883 frost hollow1895 impact crater1895 uvala1902 frost pocket1907 sotch1910 pingo1938 lagg1939 tafoni1942 1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle (1483) iii. x. 56 This is cleped the Caudron and the pytte of helle.] a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 23 Vesuvio's horrid cauldrons roar. 1793 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 359 Still thro' the gap the struggling river toils, And still, below, the horrid caldron boils. 1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xix. 457 Streams of black naked lava; which, having..flowedover the rims of the great caldrons. 1872 J. S. Blackie Lays of Highlands 9 The cauldron of the sea. b. cauldron subsidence n. in Geology (see quot. 1961). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > tectonization or diastrophism > [noun] > subsidence bump1860 roll1883 overdeepening1901 cauldron subsidence1909 load-casting1953 1909 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 65 611 A cauldron-subsidence which affected an area roughly oval in shape, and measuring not less than 5 miles from side to side. 1961 J. Challinor Dict. Geol. 32/2 Cauldron-subsidence, the subsidence of a cylindrical or conical mass of rock into underlying magma so that displaced magma flows upwards round and over the subsiding mass... The classic examples are those of Ben Nevis and Glen Coe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2021). cauldronv. rare. transitive. To put or enclose in (or as in) a cauldron. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclose [verb (transitive)] > in or as in other specific receptacle or enclosure casea1525 to case up1566 chamber1568 bag1570 embower1580 cistern1587 bower1599 casket1603 entemple1603 immould1610 incavern1611 incave1615 chest1616 enchest1632 intrunk1633 labyrinth1637 caverna1640 cabinetc1642 ark1644 to box in1745 lantern1789 cauldron1791 cave1816 pocket1833 castle1871 1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. 129 Where..Cauldron'd in rock, innocuous Lava burns. 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad iii. 104 Dark fiend, that..cauldrons in his cave that fiery flood. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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