| 释义 |
toise, n.|tɔɪz|
In 6 toyse.
[a. F. toise:—OF. teise = It. tesa:—Late L. tēsa, tensa (sc. brachia) ‘the outstretched arms’, taken as a fem. sing.: see also the ME. teise, taise.]
A French lineal measure of 6 French feet, roughly equal to 1·949 metres, or 62/5 English feet. Chiefly in military use. square toise, a measure = about 4½ square yards.
1598Dallington Meth. Trav. B iv b, This great City..is within ten Toyses as large as Paris. 1644Evelyn Diary 7 Mar., The Greate Garden, 180 toises long and 154 wide. 1759tr. Duhamel's Husb. ii. xi. (1762) 150, 1344 square toises of 36 feet. 1823Byron Juan viii. vii, The column order'd on the assault scarce pass'd Beyond the Russian batteries a few toises [rime noises]. 1904Quiller-Couch Fort Amity xiii, It was quadrilateral with a frontage of fifty toises.
Hence toise v. rare [ad. Fr. toiser] trans., to measure with the eye, to eye from head to foot.
1889Stevenson Master of B. iv, At the same time he had a better look at me, toised me a second time sharply, and then smiled. a1894― St. Ives xix, I am acquainted also with the properties of a pair of pistols, said I, toising him. |