slaught-beamとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Probably a calque of Dutch slagboom or German Schlagbaum. These are etymologically equivalent to English slay +‎ beam, meaning a beam that can be banged (“slain”) down. The word slaught (related with slay) would have been chosen because it is phonetically closer to the continental words.

Alternatively it might be a phono-semantic matching of Dutch sluitboom, which has the same sense, but literally means “closing beam”. In this case, however, the etymological relation between the element slaught and the above-mentioned words would be a curious coincidence.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈslɔːt.biːm/

名詞

slaught-beam (plural slaught-beams)

1. (obsolete, military) Barrier.

   Raise the slaught-beam.

参照

• An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “slagboom”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute