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別の表記

• dumb-bell, dumbell (rare)

語源

From dumb (“silent”) +‎ bell (“a resonating instrument”). The term "dumbbell" originated in 16th-century England to describe silent exercise apparatus used in practicing the motions of ringing church bells noiselessly. To aid them in the practice of their physically demanding vocation, bellringers originally used weighted ropes on fixed pulleys to mimic the motion of ringing a church bell; since such apparatus made no noise while imitating the motion of ringing a swinging bell via a fixed pulley, they were called "dumb bells". Later, the rope-and-pulley weights evolved into simple hand-held weights used by ringers for strengthening the shoulder and back muscles heavily used in tower bellringing, and the term "'dumb bell'" evolved into the compound word "'dumbbell'".

発音

• IPA: /ˈdʌm.bɛl/

名詞

dumbbell (plural dumbbells)

1. A weight training implement consisting of a short bar with weight counterpoised on each end.

   He was exercising with the dumbbells in gym class today.

   • 1997, Pete McDonald, Climbing Lessons: Inside Outdoor Education, page 40:

     He also had a room strewn with the toys of the trade and what-have-you: ropes and ironmongery, buoyancy aid and bagpipes, fetid socks and half-eaten haggises, dumbbells and ski-instructor sweaters.

   • 2007, “The Years before the End of the War”, in A Girl From Shanghai: The Story of Lillian Hsu, a Medical Geneticist, a NTU Medical College Alumna‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 35–36:

     On the map Gansu is shaped like a dumbbell lying obliquely from east to west. Its best known city is Lanjhou, the capital, and also the gateway to the Silk Road. But we did not go there; we were heading for a relatively unknown city a few hundred miles away from Lanjhou, called Tianshuei.

2. (obsolete) A bell with no clapper, used as bell-striking practice or to strike as a form of physical exercise
3. (derogatory, slang) A stupid person.
   • 2015, Floyd Merrell, Enigmas: Gold Fever, Space-Time Warps, Sierra Madre Magic:

     That's fool's gold, you dumbbell. Iron pyrite. Nobody would give you a dime for a ton of it.

派生語

派生した語

• → Japanese: ダンベル (danberu)
• → Korean: 덤벨 (deombel)

参考

• barbell
• kettlebell