英语词汇“heads and points”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

k. heads and points.

(a) Any of various children's guessing games played with pins, involving one player having to guess the orientation of a pin or set of pins hidden in the hand. Now rare.

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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Bechevet Teste a teste Bechevet, the play with pins, called, heads and points.

a1672 F. Willughby Bk. of Games (2003) 187 Heads and Points is when one hides 2 pins in his hand clutched. If both the heads lie one way, they are called Heads, if contrary ways, Points.

1724 J. Anderson Let. 10 Apr. in J. Maidment Private Lett. (1829) xix. 39 A gentleman's child..engadging [sic] one of the company to play with pins at heads and points, the person soon gott all his pins.

1830 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry II. 165 Behind the master is a third set [of boys], playing ‘Heads and points’—a game of pins.

1895 T. B. Atkins Out of Cradle into World iii. 40 That group of fickle children are for a minute all absorbed in a game of heads and points.

1920 A. C. Baker Trav. 97 in Geneal. & Hist. Baker, Andrus, Clark, & Adams Families When a boy it was my pleasure to play heads and points with pins.

(b) Of a group of people or objects: (so as to be) arranged or disposed such that individuals lie or point alternately in opposite directions; (sometimes more generally) in confusion, higgledy-piggledy. Also at heads and points. Cf. heads and thraws at throw n.² 2, top to tail adv. Now rare.

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the world > space > direction > in the direction that [phrase] > in opposite directions

heads and points1612

heads and thraws1728

1612 J. Smith Map of Virginia 21 On these round about the house, they lie heads and points one by thother against the fire.

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. 20 Give fire Starboard; Well done Gunner; They lie Heads and Points aboard the Chase.

1775 E. Burke Speech Amer. Taxation 45 They found themselves..pigging together, heads and points, in the same truckle-bed.

1788 Amer. Museum Feb. 139/1 The hemp..must be laid down, heads and points, two, four, or six [sheaves] thick.

1828 Red Barn ix. 216 Jackson, the maid, Creed, and the young lady, were lying at heads and points in the hall.

1877 W. H. Macy There she Blows! xvi. 201 The second mate struck first, and his whale, after running a short distance, stopped, and all the rest came up around him, and lay for some time, blowing, ‘heads and points’.

1898 New Roadmasters' Assistant vi. 60 They [sc. poles] should be laid heads and points, in a bunch of three or four, with their ends slightly overlapping.

1922 Missionary Surv. Apr. 273/1 A bed for father and mother with four year old Mattie at the foot, another for the five girls sleeping ‘heads and points’.

单词	heads and points
释义	> as lemmas heads and points k. heads and points. (a) Any of various children's guessing games played with pins, involving one player having to guess the orientation of a pin or set of pins hidden in the hand. Now rare. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Bechevet Teste a teste Bechevet, the play with pins, called, heads and points. a1672 F. Willughby Bk. of Games (2003) 187 Heads and Points is when one hides 2 pins in his hand clutched. If both the heads lie one way, they are called Heads, if contrary ways, Points. 1724 J. Anderson Let. 10 Apr. in J. Maidment Private Lett. (1829) xix. 39 A gentleman's child..engadging [sic] one of the company to play with pins at heads and points, the person soon gott all his pins. 1830 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry II. 165 Behind the master is a third set [of boys], playing ‘Heads and points’—a game of pins. 1895 T. B. Atkins Out of Cradle into World iii. 40 That group of fickle children are for a minute all absorbed in a game of heads and points. 1920 A. C. Baker Trav. 97 in Geneal. & Hist. Baker, Andrus, Clark, & Adams Families When a boy it was my pleasure to play heads and points with pins. (b) Of a group of people or objects: (so as to be) arranged or disposed such that individuals lie or point alternately in opposite directions; (sometimes more generally) in confusion, higgledy-piggledy. Also at heads and points. Cf. heads and thraws at throw n.² 2, top to tail adv. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > in the direction that [phrase] > in opposite directions heads and points1612 heads and thraws1728 1612 J. Smith Map of Virginia 21 On these round about the house, they lie heads and points one by thother against the fire. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. 20 Give fire Starboard; Well done Gunner; They lie Heads and Points aboard the Chase. 1775 E. Burke Speech Amer. Taxation 45 They found themselves..pigging together, heads and points, in the same truckle-bed. 1788 Amer. Museum Feb. 139/1 The hemp..must be laid down, heads and points, two, four, or six [sheaves] thick. 1828 Red Barn ix. 216 Jackson, the maid, Creed, and the young lady, were lying at heads and points in the hall. 1877 W. H. Macy There she Blows! xvi. 201 The second mate struck first, and his whale, after running a short distance, stopped, and all the rest came up around him, and lay for some time, blowing, ‘heads and points’. 1898 New Roadmasters' Assistant vi. 60 They [sc. poles] should be laid heads and points, in a bunch of three or four, with their ends slightly overlapping. 1922 Missionary Surv. Apr. 273/1 A bed for father and mother with four year old Mattie at the foot, another for the five girls sleeping ‘heads and points’. extracted from headn.¹ < as lemmas
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