| 单词 | keen edge |
| 释义 | > as lemmaskeen 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.) ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > sharpness of edge or point > [adjective] sharpc825 bitel?c1200 keena1225 carving?c1225 fellc1330 trenchantc1330 snarpc1480 cuttinga1533 tart?a1534 undullc1540 steel-sharpa1560 teen1578 unrebated1579 unbated1604 biting1607 eager?1611 unblunted1656 shrewd1878 cutty1903 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. < as lemmas |
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