英语词汇“chawn”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

chawn

释义

▪ I. † chawn, n. Obs. or dial.
Also 7 chawne, choane, chone, chaun.
[Identical in meaning with chine n.¹, and perh. a deriv. of chine v.¹, of which the pa. tense was in OE. cán, ME. chane, chone; but the form-history is by no means clear.]
A gap, cleft, chink, rift, fissure; a chine.
1601Holland Pliny I. 37 In one place the walls of cities are laid along: in another they be swallowed vp in a deepe and wide chawne.1609― Amm. Marcell. xvii. vii. 89 The earth waxing drie..openeth very great chinkes and wide chawnes.1611Cotgr., Fendasse, a cleft, rift, chop, choane.1627T. Jackson Chr. Obed. iii. Wks. 1844 XII. 244 An earthquake..made a chaun or rift in the roof of the temple.1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 82/1 An Adams Apple [hath] some rifts, chaps, or chones thereon.1708Motteux Rabelais iv. lii, I was..plagu'd with Chaps, Chawns and Piles at the Fundament.1799Rev. F. Leighton (Shrewsbury) MS. Lett. to Rev. J. Boucher 26 Feb. Shropshire word chone, meaning a chap, gap, or cut in the flesh of the fingers, from excessive cold.
▪ II. † chawn, v. Obs.
Also 6–7 chaune, 7 chawne, choane.
[Like the n. found about 1600, and during the early part of 17th c. The vb. was probably from the n.: cf. chine n.¹ and v.¹]
Hence chawned, chawning, ppl. adjs.
1. intr. To gape open.
1601Holland Pliny I. 435 That the threshing floors should be wrought and tempered with oile lees, that they might not chawn & gape.1610― Camden's Brit. i. 512 Arches..now chinking and chawning for age.1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. viii. 19 Salt, bitter, chauning, burnt, parched..grounds.
2. trans. To cleave or rive asunder; to cause to gape open.
1600Marston Antonio & Mell. i. iii, O thou all-bearing earth..O chaune thy breast, And let me sinke into thee.1611Cotgr., Crevasser, to chop, chawne, chap, chinke, riue or cleaue asunder.Ibid. Fendiller, to..chap, choane, open.
3. trans. = chine v.²
a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xxviii. 235 Chawned cod.
▪ III. chawn
obs. form of khan.

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