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

2. Scottish and Irish English (northern). heads and thraws: (of a group of people or objects) arranged or disposed in such a way that individuals lie or point alternately in opposite directions; (also) in a confused manner, higgledy-piggledy. Cf. heads and points at head n.¹ Phrases 3k(b).Also to play at heads and thraws: †to play the game of pushpin (see pushpin n. 1a) (obsolete).

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

heads and points1612

heads and thraws1728

1728 A. Ramsay Poems II. 87 A laigh Hut, where sax thegither, Ly Heads and Thraws on Craps of Heather.

1765 Museum Rusticum 4 cvi. 462 They lay root-ends and crop-ends together, or, as is commonly called, heads and thraws.

1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose vi, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 269 The great barn would hold fifty more, if they would lie heads and thraws.

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Heads-and-thraws, with the heads and feet, or heads and points, lying in opposite directions... To play at heads and thraws, to play at push-pin.

1897 S. MacManus Dhroll Donegal 85 Themselves lying heads and thraws among the goods.

1913 Blackwood's Mag. July 12/1 No rational plan was in the town's arrangement; it lay all heads and thraws in a nook at an angle of the river and the loch.

1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 356/2 Lying heads and thraws, lying head to toe; also, figuratively, of shoes... In disorder, mixed up.

单词	heads and thraws
释义	> as lemmas heads and thraws 2. Scottish and Irish English (northern). heads and thraws: (of a group of people or objects) arranged or disposed in such a way that individuals lie or point alternately in opposite directions; (also) in a confused manner, higgledy-piggledy. Cf. heads and points at head n.¹ Phrases 3k(b).Also to play at heads and thraws: †to play the game of pushpin (see pushpin n. 1a) (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > in the direction that [phrase] > in opposite directions heads and points1612 heads and thraws1728 1728 A. Ramsay Poems II. 87 A laigh Hut, where sax thegither, Ly Heads and Thraws on Craps of Heather. 1765 Museum Rusticum 4 cvi. 462 They lay root-ends and crop-ends together, or, as is commonly called, heads and thraws. 1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose vi, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 269 The great barn would hold fifty more, if they would lie heads and thraws. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Heads-and-thraws, with the heads and feet, or heads and points, lying in opposite directions... To play at heads and thraws, to play at push-pin. 1897 S. MacManus Dhroll Donegal 85 Themselves lying heads and thraws among the goods. 1913 Blackwood's Mag. July 12/1 No rational plan was in the town's arrangement; it lay all heads and thraws in a nook at an angle of the river and the loch. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 356/2 Lying heads and thraws, lying head to toe; also, figuratively, of shoes... In disorder, mixed up. extracted from thrown.² < as lemmas
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