engrailとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

en- +‎ grail. (This etymology is missing または incomplete. Please add to it, または discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

動詞

engrail (三人称単数 現在形 engrails, 現在分詞 engrailing, 過去形および過去分詞形 engrailed)

1. (transitive) To make rough.
2. (intransitive) To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines.
   • a. 1718, Thomas Parnell, Solomon

     Fine gold engrail'd adorns the figur'd floor

語源 2

French engrêler

動詞

engrail (三人称単数 現在形 engrails, 現在分詞 engrailing, 過去形および過去分詞形 engrailed)

1. (transitive) To variegate or spot, as with hail.
   • [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, OCLC 614803194; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], volume (please specify the book number), new edition, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, OCLC 987451361:

     a caldron new engrailed with twenty hues

2. (transitive, heraldry, archaic) To indent with small curves.
   • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.120:

     He crossed through the high grass and went up the slope, climbing with handholds in the new turf until he gained the crest and turned to look down on the river and the city beyond, casting a gray glance along that varied world, the pieced plowland, the houses, the odd grady of the small metropolis against the green and blooming hills and the flat bow of the river like a serpentine trench poured with dull slag save where the wind engrailed its face and it shimmered lightly in the sun.