释义 |
▪ I. dishelm, v.1|dɪsˈhɛlm| [f. dis- 7 a + helm helmet, after OF. desheaulmer, -healmer, in same sense.] trans. To deprive or disarm of one's helmet. intr. for refl. To take off one's helmet.
c1477Caxton Jason 25 b, Incontinent as..Jason hadde..smyton doun the geant to the erthe..he dishelmed. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. clxviii. [clxiv.] 469 Sir Raynold dishelmed the Englisshe knyght. 1615Chapman Odyss. xiv. 383 Jove made me yield, Dishelm my head. 1847Tennyson Princess vi. 85 When she saw me lying stark, Dishelm'd and mute. ▪ II. dishelm, v.2|dɪsˈhɛlm| [f. dis- 7 a + helm.] trans. To deprive of the helm or rudder.
a1849H. Coleridge Poems (1850) II. 155 Fear that dishelms The vessel of the soul. 1861Lytton & Fane Tannhäuser 75 To float, dishelm'd, a wreck upon the waves. |