maulstick
英 ['mɔːlstɪk]
美['mɔl,stɪk]
- n. 支腕杖（作画时用来支撑手的工具）
英英释义
- 1. a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush
英文词源
- maulstick
- maulstick: see mole
- maulstick (n.)
- "light stick used by painters to support the painting hand," 1650s, from Dutch maalstok, literally "painting stick," from mallen "to paint," from Proto-Germanic *mal- (cognates: Old Norse mæla, Old High German malon "trace, draw, paint," German malen "to paint"), from mal "spot, mark, stain," perhaps from the same root as Greek melas "black" (see melanin), but the original sense is not color but marking. With stock "stick" (see stock (n.1)).