| 单词 |
quarter-cleft |
| 释义 |
quarter-cleft, a. and n. Chiefly dial.
Also 7 -cliff, 9 -clift.
[See cleft n. and ppl. a.]
A. adj. (See quots.) rare—0.
1850Ogilvie, Quarter-cleft Rod, a rod cleft at one end, the cleft extending to one-fourth of its length. 1882Ibid., Quarter-cleft, said of timber cut from the centre to the circumference.
B. n.
1. Wood cleft in four; quartered wood; also, one of the pieces produced by cleaving in four.
1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 15 Wee gette the biggest of [the willows] riven with iron wedges into quarter-cliffe. Ibid., Shorte forke-shaftes, made of seasoned ashe, and quarter cliffe. 1887Scott. Leader 21 Sept. 6 A large stick known in Tipperary as a ‘quarter-clift’.
2. A slightly-crazed or ‘half-cracked’ person.
1831Fraser's Mag. IV. 327 A mere nincompoop, or quarter-cliff or what else you will that implies feebleness of intellect. 1856Chambers's Jrnl. V. 139 (Ulster Proverbs, etc.) An eccentric person..is said..to ‘want a square of being round’. The next degree of aberration constitutes a ‘quarter clift’. 1880Antrim & Down Gloss., Quarter cleft, a crazy person. |
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