| 释义 |
▪ I. † brike Obs.
Also 5 bryke.
[a. ONF. brique, bricque, var. of briche, brice, trap, gin.]
A trap, a snare; a ‘fix’, a dilemma.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 128 If a man falle in bryke [v.r. brygge] for worldly richesses. c1386Chaucer Monk's T. 400 Geniloun Oliver..Broughte this worthy king in such a bryk [v.r. brike, bryke]. 1413Lydg. Pylgr. Sowle iv. xxxv. (1483) 83 Ne hit belongeth nought to suche offycers for the kynges profite to meue newe brykes. a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 176 They rekke not what brike her lorde be ynne.
▪ II. brike, brikke
obs. forms of brick. |