单词 | gallows-tree |
释义 | gallows-treen. 1. = gallows n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > gallows gallowsOE gallows-treea1000 warytre?a1200 gibbet?c1225 gallow-forka1250 forkc1275 juisec1320 forchesc1380 crossa1382 treec1425 patible1428 justice1484 potencec1500 haltera1533 turning-tree1548 potentc1550 three treesa1566 chates1567 mare1568 furel1587 bough1590 gibe1590 derrickc1600 hangrella1605 cross-tree1638 Gregorian tree1641 wooden horse1642 timber-marec1650 triple tree1651 furca1653 nubbing1673 a horse that was foaled of an acorn1678 nub1699 Tyburn tree1728 raven-stone1738 picture frame1785 crap1789 lamp-iron1790 Moll Blood1818 stifler1818 scragging-post1819 government signposta1828 leafless tree1830 shuggie-shue1836 doom-tree1837 stob1860–62 OE Beowulf 2940 Cwæð, he on mergenne meces ecgum getan wolde, sum[e] on galgtreowu[m fuglum] to gamene. a1000 in J. Stevenson Rituale Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis (1840) 23 Ðin rodes galga tre. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 43/300 Heng up-on þe galu-treo. c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 4764 Ȝe schul..heye hong on galwe tre. c1422 T. Hoccleve Jereslaus' Wife 436 Shee espyde A galwe tree to which men a theef ledde. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 111 In his suppleis, On gallow treis Now he dois glowir. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. (1609) i. xxvi. 19 Let them..hang him upon a cursed gallow tree [L. infelici arbori] by a rope. a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) X. 231 He that mistakes..the gallow-tree for a triumphal arch. 1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence ii. 446 Most like to carcase parched on gallow-tree. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 53 The fatal day was announced to the public, by the appearance of a huge black gallows-tree. 1878 in G. P. Lathrop Masque of Poets 97 The gallows-tree was never built for handsome lads like you. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > trivet trivet1416 gallows1512 trippet1563 gallows-tree1590 footman1767 sime1781 1590 Inv. in Midland Counties Hist. Collector II. 31 Item j galowe tree ij Rekyrons. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.a1000 |
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