temse
See also: Temse
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Etymology edit
From Middle English temse (“a sieve”) and temsen (“to sieve”), both from Old English temsian, temesian (“to sieve; strain; sift”).
Compare also French tamis, Dutch teems, North Frisian tems, Danish dialectal tems (“sieve”), German dialectal Zims (“sieve”). Compare also tamine. Doublet of tamis.
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temse (third-person singular simple present temses, present participle temsing, simple past and past participle temsed)
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temse (plural temses)
- (UK, obsolete or dialectal) A sieve.
- 1777, Elizabeth Marshall, The Young Ladies' Guide in the Art of Cookery:
- Stone your apricots , coddle them , and rub them through a temse
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- “temse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old English *temes, from Proto-West Germanic *tamisu, of unclear origin.
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temse
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- “temse, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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temse
- Alternative form of temsen