| 单词 | imperial crowner |
| 释义 | > as lemmasimperial crowner 3. colloquial. A heavy fall, esp. (more fully imperial crowner) one in which the person lands on his or her head. Now somewhat dated. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > [noun] > falling down or from erect position (animates) > on head or nose crowner1850 noser1862 1850 G. J. Whyte-Melville Passages Life Tilbury Nogo iv, in Sporting Mag. Mar. 180 I..got a most imperial crowner in what I believe to have been a second ditch. 1861 G. J. Whyte-Melville Good for Nothing ii. xxvi. 201 A ‘crowner’ for John, whose horse goes shoulder deep into a hole. 1887 Viscount Bury & G. L. Hillier Cycling (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) i. 14 The peculiar form of tumble that ensues is known by the distinctive name of ‘the cropper’, or ‘Imperial crowner’. 1918 D. Cooper Let. 2 Aug. in Rainbow comes & Goes (1958) 189 Imagine the horror of seeing Birrell take a crowner on his back, heels and umbrella waving in air. 1919 J. Masefield Reynard the Fox ii. 104 Lord, what a crowner we've a been, This jumping brook's a mucky job. 1997 Guardian 27 Feb. ii. 10/4 How many croppers and imperial crowners (as the contemporary cycling vernacular had it) did they endure on their hobby-horses and high-wheelers? < as lemmas |
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