| 单词 | madge |
| 释义 | ▪ I. madge1|mædʒ|
[app. identical with Madge, pet-name for Margaret.]
1. The Barn-Owl, Aluco flammeus. Also madge-howlet, madge-owl, madge-owlet.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. v. 767 Thou lasie Madge That, fearing light, still seekest where to hide. 1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. ii. i, Ile sit in a barne, with Madge-howlet, and catch mice first. 1603Harsnet Pop. Impost. 108 This must needes make the poore Madge Owlets cry out. 1606Day Ile of Guls ii. iv. (1881) 54 The black swan of beauty and madg-howlet of admiration. 1635Swan Spec. M. (1670) 359 Ulula..which we call the Howlet, or the Madge. 1637B. Jonson Sad Sheph. ii. i, Thou shoul'dst ha' given her a Madge-Owle. 1694Motteux Rabelais v. ix, Under his Cage he perceived a Madge howlet. 1823Lamb Lett. xii. To B. Barton 119 A silent meeting of madge-owlets. 1848Zoologist VI. 2191 The barn owl..in Warwickshire..is generally called a ‘madge’ or ‘madge owlet’.
2. The Common Magpie, Pica caudata.
1823Moor Suffolk Words, Madge, Mag, Meg, a magpie. 1828J. Fleming Hist. Brit. Anim. 87 P. caudata. Common Magpie... E. Pianet, Madge. 1894Newton Dict. Birds 720 note, ‘Magot’ and ‘Madge’, are names frequently given in England to the Pie.
▪ II. madge2|mædʒ|
A leaden hammer covered thickly with stout woollen cloth, used in hard solder plating.
1870Eng. Mech. 25 Feb. 573/1 A leaden hammer, clothed with kersey or woollen cloth, called a madge. |
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