单词 | apiece |
释义 | apieceadv. For each piece, article, thing, or (colloquial) person; each, for each, to each; severally, individually. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [adverb] > respectively > for or to each apiecec1430 c1430 Bk. Curtasye 376 Ffor cariage þe porter hors schall hyre, ffoure pens a pece. 1465 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 476 The prise of a pece, vii.s.] 1526 Bible (Tyndale) John ii. f. cxxj Sixe water pottes of stone..contaynynge two or thre fyrkins a pece [1611 King James apiece]. 1556 Chron. Grey Friars 47 A new qwyne of sylver, of xijd apece.] 1596 J. Gilbert Let. in Notes & Queries (1864) 6 Feb. 109 Too other greatte shyppes..off 600 tones apesse. 1611 Bible (King James) Luke ix. 3 Neither haue two coates apeece . View more context for this quotation a1727 I. Newton Chronol. Anc. Kingdoms Amended (1728) i. 52 Kings reign, one with another, about eighteen or twenty years a-piece. 1836 C. Fox Jrnls. I. 18 She promised her and Leonora a Cashmere shawl apiece. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.c1430 |
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