| 释义 |
ˈhorse-nail
1. A horseshoe-nail.
1598Barret Theor. Warres 135 Horse nayles and horse shoes of all sizes. 1695Congreve Love for L. iii. ix, Poring upon the Ground for a crooked Pin, or an old Horse-Nail. 1858Greener Gunnery 148 The inferior iron of which we make horse-nails.
2. A tadpole. local.
1608Topsell Serpents (1658) 719 The heads of these young Gyrini, which we call in English Horse-nails; because they resemble a Horse-nail in their similitude, whose head is great, and the other part small. 1887in Kent. Gloss. |