英语词汇“in the deid thraw”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 English regional (northern). An intermediate or transitional state; a turning point between stages. Chiefly in in the deid thraw: between hot and cold, frozen and thawed, fresh and stale, etc. (see quots.). Now rare.

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?1590 King James VI Let. 19 Feb. in D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk of Scotl. (1844) V. 82 Getting..good craftsmen..for ending out the halfe perfytted Abbey, that lyes in suche a dead thraw as did the hoastie..betuixt the Spangnell preests hands.

1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Triumph of Faith xxi. 224 Nor is he a thorow childe of light, but as we say, in the dead-throw, in the place of breaking forth of children.

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Dede-Thraw Meat is said to be in the dead-thraw, when it is neither cold nor hot... Anything is said to be ‘left in the dead-thraw’, when left unfinished.

1822 J. Hogg Three Perils of Man I. vii. 199 One of those sort of winter days..when the weather is what the shepherds call ‘in the deadthraw’, that is, in a struggle between frost and thaw.

1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet xx Think of his having left my cause in the dead-thraw between the tyneing and the winning.

1905 Eng. Dial. Dict.: Suppl. 85/1 [Caithness.] In the dead thraw, of fish: not fresh.

1915 H. Beaton At Back o' Benachie 12 If the weather was frosty..feet and hands were in the ‘deid thraw’ or ‘dauvert’, so that when the washers reached home and put them in warm water, they ‘dirl't’ and ‘stoon't’ like to sicken them.

1945 Scots Mag. Feb. 378 The day's deen. The year's at the deid-thraw.

单词	in the deid thraw
释义	> as lemmas in the deid thraw 2. Scottish and English regional (northern). An intermediate or transitional state; a turning point between stages. Chiefly in in the deid thraw: between hot and cold, frozen and thawed, fresh and stale, etc. (see quots.). Now rare. ΚΠ ?1590 King James VI Let. 19 Feb. in D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk of Scotl. (1844) V. 82 Getting..good craftsmen..for ending out the halfe perfytted Abbey, that lyes in suche a dead thraw as did the hoastie..betuixt the Spangnell preests hands. 1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Triumph of Faith xxi. 224 Nor is he a thorow childe of light, but as we say, in the dead-throw, in the place of breaking forth of children. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Dede-Thraw Meat is said to be in the dead-thraw, when it is neither cold nor hot... Anything is said to be ‘left in the dead-thraw’, when left unfinished. 1822 J. Hogg Three Perils of Man I. vii. 199 One of those sort of winter days..when the weather is what the shepherds call ‘in the deadthraw’, that is, in a struggle between frost and thaw. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet xx Think of his having left my cause in the dead-thraw between the tyneing and the winning. 1905 Eng. Dial. Dict.: Suppl. 85/1 [Caithness.] In the dead thraw, of fish: not fresh. 1915 H. Beaton At Back o' Benachie 12 If the weather was frosty..feet and hands were in the ‘deid thraw’ or ‘dauvert’, so that when the washers reached home and put them in warm water, they ‘dirl't’ and ‘stoon't’ like to sicken them. 1945 Scots Mag. Feb. 378 The day's deen. The year's at the deid-thraw. extracted from death throen. < as lemmas
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