| 单词 | hedge-press |
| 释义 | > as lemmashedge-press b. Done, performed, produced, worked, under a hedge, in byways, or clandestinely, as hedge-marriage, hedge-notes, hedge-press, hedge-rhymes. ΚΠ a1667 A. Cowley Answer Verses from Jersey 13 Such Base, Rough, Crabbed, Hedge-Rhimes, as ev'n set the Hearers Ears on Edge. 1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. xxiii When they began to be somewhat better bred..they left these Hedge Notes, for another sort of Poem, somewhat polish'd. 1720 J. Swift Proposal Use Irish Manuf. 12 Corrector of a Hedge-Press in some Blind-Alley about Little-Britain. 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Hedge-marriage, a secret clandestine marriage. North. < as lemmas |
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