ewreとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

ewre (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 ewres)

1. Obsolete form of ore.
   • 1554, document quoted in 1898, England and Wales. Court of Requests, Great Britain. Court of Requests, Isaac Saunders Leadam, Selden Society, Select Cases in the Court of Requests, A.D. 1497-1569, page 202:

     […] paying therfore [...] vnto the said Abbott & convent & their successours at the grownde wheare the said Leade ewre or cooles bee or shalbe dygged or gotten three loodes of Ewre of Coole or Leade at & of euery xxi loodes […]

   • 1665, Dud Dudley, Dud Dudley's Metallum Martis: Or, Iron Made with Pit-coale, Sea-coale, &c: And with the Same Fuell to Melt and Fine Imperfect Mettals, and Refine Perfect Mettals, page 23:

     […] the slagge of Iron to melt and purify Iron Ewre for which also Lyme and ashes of wood, and dust of char-coale, are used; and for small trialls, arsnicke, sulpher, vitriol, tartar, salt-gemme, salt-niter, and stybrum  […]

   • 1881, George Grant Francis, The Smelting of Copper in the Swansea District of South Wales:

     Wee are able to melt it w'th two fornises in the space of 40 weekes the quantitie of 560 tonne of ewre if wee might have it, and if the ewre be clean and well sorted the mor copper it will yeld.