knitchとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 knicche (“bundle (of brush, weeds), bunch, sheaf”), from 古期英語 ġecnyċċ (“bond”), deverbative of ġecnyċċan, cnyċċan (“to tie, bind together, connect”), from Proto-Germanic *knukkijaną; akin to Lithuanian gniáužti (“to close one’s hand”).

発音

• enPR: nĭch, IPA: /nɪt͡ʃ/
• 韻: -ɪtʃ
• Homophone: nitch

名詞

knitch (plural knitches)

1. (archaic, dialectal) A small bundle.

   a knitch of wheat

   • 1606, Caius [i.e., Gaius] Suetonius Tranquillus, “The Historie of Caius Iulius Cesar Dictator”, in Philêmon Holland, transl., The Historie of Twelve Cæsars Emperours of Rome. […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes and George Snowdon] for Matthew Lownes, →OCLC, section 20, page 8:

     Hee brought-in likevvise the ancient cuſtome againe, that in vvhat moneth hee had not the Knitches of rods vvith Axes borne before him, a publique Officer called Accensvs ſhould huiſher him before, and the Serjeants or Lictours follovv after behinde.

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アナグラム

• thinck