| 单词 | gori-stick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgori-stick A forked stick used by Arabian slave traders to fasten slaves together by their necks. Also gori-stick. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > [noun] > bond(s) or fetter(s) or shackle(s) > for the neck > stick for slaves gori1865 taming-stick1866 slave-fork1883 slave-stick1899 1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi v. 137 ‘Goree’, or Slave-stick. 1891 Life & Work May [4] This boy..worked in a gore-stick for two years. 1899 A. Werner Captain of Locusts 243 Uledi and certain men came down..from the Unango country, bringing with them people tied in gori-sticks. 1921 W. P. Livingstone Laws of Livingstonia iii. ix. 213 The slaves..fastened with chains or the gori stick. 1925 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 276/2 The young ones already had their necks in the goree. < as lemmas |
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