英语词汇“cart's-tail”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	cart's-tail
释义	cart's-tail Rarely cart-tail. The hinder part of a cart, to which offenders were tied to be whipped through the streets. Hence cart's-tailing vbl. n., cart's-tailable a. nonce-wds. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 1868/1 They..should be tyed to a Carts tayle, and be whipped three market dayes through the City.1642in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. (1721) IV. 559 b, He shall be whipped from thence at a Cart's-Tayl.1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Cart, Bawds and other malefactors are whipped at the Cart's tail.1856Froude Hist. Eng. i. (L.) The rough remedy of the cart-tail. 1808Southey Let. 22 Nov., Your phrase of ‘eking out’ is cart's-tailable without benefit of clergy.Ibid. I am not quite sure which deserves the severest cart's-tailing.
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