| 单词 | crocket |
| 释义 | ▪ I. crocket1|ˈkrɒkɪt|
Also 4 croket.
[a. AF. croket, croquet, northern Fr. form of F. crochet (used in senses 1 and 2), dim. of OF. croche, ONF. croque: see crochet, croquet.]
†1. A curl or roll of hair formerly worn. Obs.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 3208 Be nat proude of þy croket [trop geluz de sun croket]. c1325Poem Times Edw. II in Pol. Songs (Camden) 329 He set upon a koife, and kembeth the croket. 1393Gower Conf. II. 370 His croket kempt and theron set An ouche, with a chapelet.
2. Arch. ‘One of the small ornaments placed on the inclined sides of pinnacles, pediments, canopies, etc. in Gothic architecture’ (Gwilt); usually in the form of buds or curled leaves, sometimes of animals. (Also crochet, crotchet 4.)
[1394: cf. crotchet.] 1673E. Brown Trav. Germ. (1677) 80 This Spire hath the largest Crockets I have observed in any. a1682Sir T. Browne Posth. Wks. (1712) 34 Eight leaves of stone spreading outward, under which begin the eight rows of crockets. 1811Milner Eccl. Archit. Eng. 104 Adorned with the representation of foliage along the jambs called crockets. 1849Freeman Archit. 296 Rows of canopied niches, with crocket and finial. 1874Parker Goth. Archit. 321 Gloss., Crocket..supposed to be derived from the resemblance to a shepherd's crook.
3. One of the terminal ‘buds’ or knobs on a stag's horn; = croche n.2
1870D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports §1796 His [the stag's] crockets are the upright points of his horns. 1873Black Pr. Thule xxv. 414 You will discourse..of the span and the pearls, of the antlers and the crockets.
4. attrib. and Comb. (in sense 2): = ‘decorated with, or characterized by, crockets’.
1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 155 Arches are made use of in crocket Windows. Ibid. 194 Crocket-work, (or Fret⁓work, as some Glaziers call it). 1879Sir G. Scott Lect. Archit. I. 153 During the first half of the thirteenth century these crocket capitals were brought to very high perfection.
▪ II. † crocket2 Obs.—1
Diminutive of crock n.1
1658W. Burton Itin. Anton. 160 Besides other Crockets and earthen Vessels. |
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