单词 | sipling |
释义 | sipling north. and obs. Sc.|ˈsɪplɪŋ| Forms: 6 suppline, syplin, syeppaling, 8 sippleing; 7, 9– sipling, 9 siplin', -lin. [perh. ad. OF. souplin a shoot of a tree (Godef.); as a mere var. of sapling the change of vowel would be difficult to account for.] A sapling.
1513Douglas æneid iii. i. 47 Quhar hepthorne buskis..grew hye, And evin syplinnis of myrthus. Ibid. vii. xiv. 87 And a haill suppline of a gret myrtre. 1610North Riding Rec. (1884) I. 186 To cutt upp young siplings of asshe & hassells. 1708J. C. Compl. Collier (1845) 35 Young Plants or Sippleings, as we here call them, of Oak, Ash or Aller. 1807R. Anderson Cumbld. Ball. (1881) 108 Wid a spur on my heel, a yek [= oak] siplin in han. 1849–in dialect glossaries (Northumb, Durh., Cumb.). |

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