| 释义 |
ˈback-ˈspeir, -spear, v. Sc.
[f. back adv. + speir, to question.]
To re-examine, cross-examine. back-speirer, cross-examiner.
a1689Cleland Poems (1697) 101 (Jam.) Several times affronted By slie back-spearers, and accounted An empty rogue. 1796J. Ramsey in Lockhart Scott (1839) I. 348 It is however easier to backspeir you. 1860Ramsay Remin. i. 111 ‘I winna be back-spiered noo, Polly Fullarton.’ |