英语词汇“gad cracking”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

† gad cracking n. English regional (Lincolnshire) Obsolete a custom observed on Palm Sunday in Caistor, Lincolnshire, involving the cracking of a gad-whip (gad-whip n.).In quot. 1799 the custom is explained but the term gad-cracking is not used.

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1799 Brit. Critic Sept. 270 On Palm-Sunday, a person from Broughton attends with a new cart-whip, or whip-gad (as they call it in Lincolnshire)..and, after cracking it three times in the church-porch, he takes his place... He then quits the seat with his gad, having a purse..fixed to the end of its lash, and..holds the purse suspended over the minister's head all the time he is reading this second lesson.]

1839 Lincs. Chron. 29 Mar. On Sunday last that very old custom of the Gad cracking in Caistor church was gone through as usual.

1841 R. T. Hampson Medii Ævi Kal. I. 182 At Hundon, in Lincolnshire, there is still annually practised on this day [sc. Palm Sunday] a remarkable custom, called Gad Cracking.

1847 in R. C. Russell From Cock-fighting to Chapel Building (2002) iii. 17/2 Sunday next will be the gad-cracking day at the parish Church [in Caistor].

单词	gad cracking
释义	> as lemmas gad cracking † gad cracking n. English regional (Lincolnshire) Obsolete a custom observed on Palm Sunday in Caistor, Lincolnshire, involving the cracking of a gad-whip (gad-whip n.).In quot. 1799 the custom is explained but the term gad-cracking is not used. ΚΠ 1799 Brit. Critic Sept. 270 On Palm-Sunday, a person from Broughton attends with a new cart-whip, or whip-gad (as they call it in Lincolnshire)..and, after cracking it three times in the church-porch, he takes his place... He then quits the seat with his gad, having a purse..fixed to the end of its lash, and..holds the purse suspended over the minister's head all the time he is reading this second lesson.] 1839 Lincs. Chron. 29 Mar. On Sunday last that very old custom of the Gad cracking in Caistor church was gone through as usual. 1841 R. T. Hampson Medii Ævi Kal. I. 182 At Hundon, in Lincolnshire, there is still annually practised on this day [sc. Palm Sunday] a remarkable custom, called Gad Cracking. 1847 in R. C. Russell From Cock-fighting to Chapel Building (2002) iii. 17/2 Sunday next will be the gad-cracking day at the parish Church [in Caistor]. extracted from gadn.¹ < as lemmas
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