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▪ I. treddle Now dial.|ˈtrɛd(ə)l|
Forms: α. 1 tyrdel, 5 -dyl, 6 -dell, -dle, tirdil, turdyll, 6–7 terdle, 7 tir-, turdle; β. 5 tredel(e, triddil, tridel, trydelle, 7–9 truddle, 6– treddle; γ. 6 treatle. See also trattle n.2
[ME. tyrdyl, etc. (whence by metathesis tridil, treddle), = OE. tyrdel, dim. of tord, turd: see -el suffix1.]
A pellet of sheep's or goat's dung: usually in pl.
αc1000Sax. Leechd. II. 72 ᵹenim gate tyrdlu. Ibid. 214 Haran tyrdlu. c1440Promp. Parv. 494/2 Tyrdyl, schepys donge. 1530Palsgr. 281/2 Tyrdell. Ibid. 284/1 Turdyll shepes donge, fient de brebis. 1552Huloet, Tyrdles of gootes or shepe, rudus, eris. 1563T. Hill Art Garden. (1593) 107 If you take the seeds of euery colour of Gilliflours and put them altogither into a thin small reed, or terdle of a sheep or goat. 1647Hexham 1, Sheeps dung or tirdles. 1671Skinner Etymol. Ling. Angl., The Treddles vel Truddles, q.d. Turdles.
βc1410Master of Game xi. (1904) 40 Men clepen þe steppes or þe marckes of þe Otere..and his fumes tredeles or spraintes. 14..MS. Lincoln Med. lf. 291 (Halliw.) The triddils of an hare. 1483Cath. Angl. 393/2 A Trydelle, ruder. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 55 b, Taking a Treddle of Sheepe, or Goates doung. 1601Holland Pliny xix. xii. II. 33 The round treddles of a Goat. 1736W. Ellis New Exper. Husb. 25 Price for the neat Treddle, clear of all Hay, Straw, Flaff, or other Mixture. 1905in Eng. Dial. Dict. from Lincoln, Herts, Kent, Surrey.
▪ II. treddle
variant of treadle. |
单词 tredecuple 释义 † tredecuple, a. Obs. rare.[f. L. tredecim thirteen, after decuple.]......