| 单词 |
lockchester |
| 释义 |
ˈlockchester Obs. exc. dial. Also 5 lokecheste. [perh. f. lock v.1 + chest + -er1, in allusion to the creature's habit of rolling itself up tightly.] A woodlouse.
c1440Promp. Parv. 310/2 Locchester, wyrm. a1485Ibid. 316/2 (MS. S.) Lukchester, worm. 14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 597/8 Multipes, a lokecheste, or a shrympe. 1847–78Halliwell s.v. Lockchest, A gardener [in Oxfordshire] used to call the wood-louse lockchester. |

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