| 单词 | as dead, deaf, dumb, dour as a doornail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas dead, deaf, dumb, dour as a doornail A large-headed nail, with which doors were formerly studded for strength, protection, or ornamentation: now chiefly in the alliterative phr. as dead, deaf, dumb, dour as a doornail: see dead adj. 32b, deaf adj. 1d, etc. Conjectured by Todd to be ‘The nail on which in ancient doors the knocker struck’. No evidence of this appears. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > nail > nails for other specific uses stay-nail1296 wough-nailc1300 strake-nail1334 wall-nail1344 traverse nail1348 doornail1350 gad-nail1375 lath-nail1388 clout-nail1463 lattice-nail1480 lath-brod1536 sheathing-nail1611 bellows-nail1731 weight nail1850 panel pin1867 wheeler1873 fencing-nail1874 brattice-nail1880 toggle1934 1350 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 262 3000 dornail..7200 dornail. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 628 For but ich haue bote of mi bale..I am ded as dore-nail. a1400–50 Alexander 4747 Dom as a dore-nayle & defe was he bathe. 1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iv. ix. 39 And I do not leaue thee..as dead as a doore nayle. 1680 T. Otway Hist. Caius Marius v. 57 As dead as a Herring, Stock-fish, or Door-nail. 1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South I. xvii. 209 Thornton's as dour as a door-nail. 1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. 497 Door-nails, floor and roof-nails. < as lemmas |
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