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单词 keen edge
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keen edge
a. Of weapons, cutting instruments, and the like: Having a very sharp edge or point; able to cut or pierce with ease. Also of an edge or point: Extremely sharp. (Now somewhat rhetorical, except in keen edge, the ordinary word being sharp.)
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a1225 Juliana 57 Irnene gadien kene to keoruen.
a1225 Leg. Kath. 1952 Þe hweoles beon þurhspitet mid kenre pikes þen eni cnif.
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Hypermnestra. 2654 Out he caught a knyfe as A rasour kene.
a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) lxiv. 6 He drewe his bowe with arrowe sharp and kene.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost i. i. 6 His sythes keene edge. View more context for this quotation
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xix. sig. B4v Plucke the keene teeth from the fierce Tygers yawes.
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron II. vi. viii. 29 The keen edge of a Razor.
1752 E. Young Brothers iv. i Like that poor wretch..Who, while in sleep..Draws his keen sword.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 374 The keen edge will not be blunted.
figurative.a1380 Virgin Antioch 24 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 26 Stured on..Wiþ twey kene prikkes of couetise.a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. i. 5 Let vs be keene, and rather cut a little Then fall, and bruise to death. View more context for this quotation1713 E. Young Poem on Last Day i. 12 Thou..Hast felt the keenest Edge of mortal Pain.1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 164 Set a keener edge On female industry.a1822 P. B. Shelley Masque of Anarchy (1832) lxxiv. 38 Words Keen to wound as sharpened swords.
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