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

head breakage n. [compare Old English hēafodbryce , early Middle English heafodbrice breaking of the skull, broken head ( < head n.¹ + bruche n.¹)] †(a) (in the usage of Thomas Carlyle) the causing of injury to a person's head; an instance of this (obsolete); (b) the breaking of the head of something.In quot. 1827 with reference to the contravention of grammatical rules (see to break Priscian's head at Priscian n. 1).

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1827 T. Carlyle tr. J. P. F. Richter in German Romance III. 218 The well-known head-breakages of Priscian [Ger. Donatsschnitzern] on the part of the Magnates in Pest and Poland.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. v. 43 How often has the broached barrel proved not to be for joy and heart-effusion, but for duel and head-breakage!

1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. xvii. 114 Cain's slaying Abel by swift head-breakage.

1905 Daily Railway Age 21 June 1089/1 It is head breakage that scraps most of our couplers.

2002 U.S. Patent 6,354,963 7 The head [of the golf club] can be kept thick while maintaining a high moment of inertia. This prevents head breakage due to impact and the like.

单词	head breakage
释义	> as lemmas head breakage head breakage n. [compare Old English hēafodbryce , early Middle English heafodbrice breaking of the skull, broken head ( < head n.¹ + bruche n.¹)] †(a) (in the usage of Thomas Carlyle) the causing of injury to a person's head; an instance of this (obsolete); (b) the breaking of the head of something.In quot. 1827 with reference to the contravention of grammatical rules (see to break Priscian's head at Priscian n. 1). ΚΠ 1827 T. Carlyle tr. J. P. F. Richter in German Romance III. 218 The well-known head-breakages of Priscian [Ger. Donatsschnitzern] on the part of the Magnates in Pest and Poland. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. v. 43 How often has the broached barrel proved not to be for joy and heart-effusion, but for duel and head-breakage! 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. xvii. 114 Cain's slaying Abel by swift head-breakage. 1905 Daily Railway Age 21 June 1089/1 It is head breakage that scraps most of our couplers. 2002 U.S. Patent 6,354,963 7 The head [of the golf club] can be kept thick while maintaining a high moment of inertia. This prevents head breakage due to impact and the like. extracted from headn.¹ < as lemmas
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