英语词汇“sheld、apple”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

sheld-apple

释义

ˈsheld-apple, ˈshell-apple dial.
Also sheldafle, shillaple, etc.
[Usually taken to be f. sheld a. + dapple a., but perhaps a metathetic form of *sheldalp, f. sheld a. + alp² (dial. alf), bullfinch.]
Applied to two birds remarkable for their variegated plumage.
1. The chaffinch, Fringilla cœlebs.
1544W. Turner Avium Præcip. D 6, De Fringilla,.. Anglicè a chaffinche, a sheld appel, a spink.1611Cotgr., Berée, a spinke, sheldaple, chaffinch.1802R. Anderson Cumbld. Ball. (1805) 21, I mind, when he cross'd the deep watter, To get me the shilapple' est.1813Montagu Ornith. Dict. Suppl., Shelly or Shell-apple.1880C. H. Poole Gloss. Staff., Shell or Sheld-apple, the chaffinch.
2. The crossbill, Loxia curvirostra.
1666Merrett Pinax 172 Loxias, the Shell-Apple.1668Charleton Onomast. 69 Loxia..the Cross-beak, or Shell⁓aple.1674Ray Engl. Birds 88. 1768 Pennant Brit. Zool. II. 279. 1802 Montagu Ornith. Dict., Shell, or Sheld-apple. Vide Crossbill.

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