| 单词 | as black as the crook |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas black as the crook 1. An instrument, weapon, or tool of hooked form; a hook. spec. †(a) a reaping-hook, sickle; (b) a hook for grappling or catching; (c) a hook or bent iron on which anything is hung; e.g. one of the iron hooks on which a gate hangs: esp. in ‘crooks and bands’ (see band n.1 3); a hook in a chimney for hanging a pot or kettle on, a pot-hook. Hence as black as the crook (Scottish). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > instrument or place of torture > [noun] > hook awelOE crookc1290 ungle1483 trip-hook1846 society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > [noun] > hooked awelOE crookc1290 gaffa1300 kroket1426 crotchetc1430 cromec1440 buttonhook1788 claw1815 box hook1852 hook1869 window pole1888 the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > sickle hooka700 sicklea1000 crookc1290 cycle1387 reap hook1388 reaping hook1578 knife-hooka1599 crotchet1833 the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [noun] > that by which something is suspended > hook hookc900 crookc1290 rackhook1457 tenter1592 tenterhook1888 cup hook1895 the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > gate > hinges, hooks, etc. crookc1290 resta1522 vardle1525 thimble1550 fimble1597 vartiwell1763 c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 99/241 And hire bresten fram hire bodi with Irene crokes rende. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Cleopatra. 640 In gooth the grapenel so ful of crokis. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18104 He..brast þe brasen yates sa strang, And stelen croc þat þai wit hang. c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 40 Quen corne is coruen with crokez kene. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 1161 Rakes, crookes, adses, and bycornes. 1453 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 160 Pro nayles et crokes emptis pro magnis portis. 1522 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 153 j blake worsted kirtle, and the gretter golde crokes. 1587 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 26 For fowre bands & crookes, vj d. 1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 177 As ane dur is tourned on the cruuks (quhilk in latin ar called cardines). 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xxiv. 152 Hang them [pigs when killed]..to the crookes set vp in some vaulted roofe. a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 167 Till in a birn beneath the crook They're singit wi' a scowder. 1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 17 Jan. (1939) 70 With a visage as black as the crook. 1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 ii. 420 The ends of each rafter are turned in the form of a gate-crook. 1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma lvi. 256 From whose lofty ceiling hung the crooks, from whence used to dangle the..legs of..mutton. < as lemmas |
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