English Dictionary

mould cocklebread

動詞

廃用

(obsolete) To lift one's skirts, bend over, and knead the buttocks as if kneading bread.

日本語の意味

（古語）スカートをめくり、身を前方にかがめ、お尻をパン生地をこねるように揉む行為

At the village feast, the women mould cocklebread in time with the drum, an obsolete gesture of fertility.

村の祭りで、女たちはスカートをめくり、前かがみになって、太鼓の音に合わせてパンをこねるようにお尻をこねるという古風な豊穣の儀式を行った。

意味（1）

(obsolete) To lift one's skirts, bend over, and knead the buttocks as if kneading bread.

And then at home here, or wheresoever he comes, our father is so pensive ( what muddy spirit soe'er possesses him, would I could conjure't out) that he makes us even sick of his sadness, that were wont to see my gossip's cock to day, 'mould cocklebread, daunce clutterdepouch and hannykin booby, binde barrels, or do any thing before him, and he would laugh at us.

moulds cocklebread （ present singular third-person ）

moulding cocklebread （ participle present ）

moulded cocklebread （ participle past ）

moulded cocklebread （ past ）