| 单词 | fetching of boards |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfetching of boards 1. The action of fetch v. in various senses. †fetching of boards: = tacking: see board n. 15. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > transference > bringing > [noun] > fetching fetchingc1374 fetch1549 fetch-and-carry1787 c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 890 Swich wreche on hem, for fecchyng of Eleyne, Ther shal ben take. 1464 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 377 For fecchyng of money at Retforde by ij tymes. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xx. 84 To procure easie fetching of ones breath, it is verie soueraine. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue iii. v. 216 Let me liue..in a spacious Countrey..where there is few fetching of boords. a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 76 Fuel costs nothing but fetching. 1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iii. 91 To give them Job's Goods meerely for fetching. 1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. ii. 57 I hate such fetching and carrying. 1884 H. M. Leathes Rough Notes Nat. Hist. 110 Their [dogs'] natural propensities for hunting, watching, and fetching. < as lemmas |
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