lockchester

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈlɒk.tʃɛs.tə/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Synonym of woodlouse. obsolete
    — Of these, the last only will be found in a dictionary of modern English, but I have already remarked that the name of lockchester is preserved among the peasantry of Oxfordshire, and I may add, that the peasantry in the North of England still call a woodlouse a kitchen-ball, and that those of the Southern dialects call it a chissel-bol, which is perhaps the representative of cheslop.

词形变化

lockchesters plural lockchest alternative

词源

Uncertain. Probably derived in English from lock + chest + -er. Compare lugdor. Attested a. 1400.
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