| 单词 | hacking off, out |
| 释义 | > as lemmashacking off, out a. The action of chopping or hewing, esp. with rough or heavy blows; (also) the action of breaking up or mutilating something in this way. Also hacking off, out. Cf. hack v.1 1a.Recorded earliest in hacking hammer n. at Compounds.In quot. a1475 apparently: (in Falconry) the action of chopping meat; meat which has been chopped up (cf. sense 2). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [noun] bita1000 kerfc1000 slittingc1175 carving?c1225 chop1362 cuttinga1398 hacking1398 scissure?a1425 garsingc1440 racing?a1450 incision1474 secting1507 raze1530 chopping1548 scotching1551 hackling1564 slashing1596 carbonadoing1599 kinsing1599 insection1653 secation1656 scission1676 gash1694 inciding1694 haggling1761 cut1808 shear1809 carve1888 1398 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1836) I. 250 (MED) j celedyngclayth, j hakkynghamer, ij files. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 222 Hakkynge, or hewynge, sectio. a1475 Bk. Hawking in Studia Neophilol. (1944) 16 11 (MED) Vse hym euer to hackynge..and till he flyethe fro tre to tre, he woll come to hackynge; then he woll not come, but thu moste hacke and leue his mete opon a borde in his neste. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 588 The hacking and cutting of the Hermes, and images of Mercurye, which in one night were all to be mangled. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iii. ii. 127 Why doth scraping of trenchers offend a third, or hacking of files. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxiii. 192 The hacking and slashing of Battle-Axes. a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husb. (1757) 30 Hacking is breaking the clots abroad after 'tis sown. 1731 S. Switzer Diss. True Cythisus of Ancients 26 No hacking, chopping, cutting, or any other ill Usage could entirely kill it. 1787 European Mag. & London Rev. Sept. 200/1 The hacking and hewing of a butcher's cleaver. 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon v. 126 The holeing, digging, gripping, ditching, hacking, and hand-beating. 1876 W. Papworth Gwilt's Encycl. Archit. (rev. ed.) Gloss. 1255 Taking down old plastering from a wall or ceiling, is called ‘hacking off’. 1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §1693 The removal of old glass and putty from a sash-frame is termed ‘hacking out’ in the trade. 1922 Anthropol. Papers Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 21 266 This was followed by the hacking off of fingers, in which both sexes indulged. 1934 W. Lewis Men without Art i. ii. 42 A Calvinist moralist, delecting himself with..scenes of chopping, gashing, hacking, and slitting. 1979 A. Wendt Leaves of Banyan Tree ix. 76 He had challenged them with day-long displays of hacking and chopping..until he could hardly swing an axe. 2015 Econ. Times (New Delhi) (Electronic ed.) 21 June The..protest has been over the hacking of trees to build a metro loco shed. < as lemmas |
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