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单词 at a heat
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at a heat
9. figurative. A single intense effort or bout of action; one continuous operation; a stroke, a ‘go’. Chiefly in at a heat. (Sometimes associated with 8b.)
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the world > action or operation > doing > [noun] > spell or bout of action
turnc1230
heatc1380
touch1481
pluck?1499
push?1560
bout1575
yoking1594
pull1667
tirl1718
innings1772
go1784
gamble1785
pop1839
run1864
gang1879
inning1885
shot1939
the world > action or operation > doing > in action [phrase] > in one bout of action
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c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2762 Capouns y-bake al-so tok he foure in þilke hete.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10288 Miche harme, in þat hete, happit to falle.
1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe ii. 16 I'll strike my Fortunes with him at a heat: And give him not the leisure to forget.
1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar Ep. Ded. Neither can a true just play, which is to bear the test of ages, be produced at a heat.
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture III. 26/2 One..shewed him a piece of Painting, with a boast, that he had done it at a single heat.
1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. p. iv The new articles..having been ‘thrown off at a heat’, stood particularly in want of re-revision.
1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic II. ii. viii. 13 On one occasion he hanged twenty heretics, including a minister, at a single heat.
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