英语词汇“long drop”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

long drop n. (a) a method of execution by hanging employing a long rope and a gallows or raised platform with a trapdoor, intended to ensure a rapid or instantaneous death (typically by dislocation of the cervical vertebrae); (b) colloquial (chiefly Australian, New Zealand, and South African) an outdoor privy built over a pit.

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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > gallows > with trapdoor

long drop1821

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > specific outside

piss-house1665

dunnekin1790

earth closet1863

garden house1888

dunny1924

long drop1963

1821 Imperial Weekly Gaz. & Westm. Jrnl. 15 June He requested that he might have a long drop.

1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log I. xi. 341 The lumbering flap of the long drop was heard.

1912 E. Philpotts Lovers xxvi. 338 The long drop's fatal, and breaks his neck.

1963 I. Chase Elephants arrive at Half-past Five vi. 198 A chemical toilet or long drop, as Guy called it, was reached by threading one's way through a labyrinth of papyrus matting.

1982 Canberra Times 5 Aug. 3/2 With the construction of the lavatory ‘we go from long drops to flush toilets’ Ms Lange enthused yesterday.

1990 R. Malan My Traitor's Heart (1991) ii. 353 The Alcocks' toilet was a long drop, and there was no running water in their house.

2001 J. Harding & M. C. Harding Escape from Paradise 122 Mercifully, our high tech gallows use the ‘long drop’, so, the prisoner..dies instantly.

2014 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 11 Dec. I've perched on stinky long drops, strained on squat toilets and piddled behind bushes all over the world.

单词	long drop
释义	> as lemmas long drop long drop n. (a) a method of execution by hanging employing a long rope and a gallows or raised platform with a trapdoor, intended to ensure a rapid or instantaneous death (typically by dislocation of the cervical vertebrae); (b) colloquial (chiefly Australian, New Zealand, and South African) an outdoor privy built over a pit. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > gallows > with trapdoor long drop1821 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > specific outside piss-house1665 dunnekin1790 earth closet1863 garden house1888 dunny1924 long drop1963 1821 Imperial Weekly Gaz. & Westm. Jrnl. 15 June He requested that he might have a long drop. 1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log I. xi. 341 The lumbering flap of the long drop was heard. 1912 E. Philpotts Lovers xxvi. 338 The long drop's fatal, and breaks his neck. 1963 I. Chase Elephants arrive at Half-past Five vi. 198 A chemical toilet or long drop, as Guy called it, was reached by threading one's way through a labyrinth of papyrus matting. 1982 Canberra Times 5 Aug. 3/2 With the construction of the lavatory ‘we go from long drops to flush toilets’ Ms Lange enthused yesterday. 1990 R. Malan My Traitor's Heart (1991) ii. 353 The Alcocks' toilet was a long drop, and there was no running water in their house. 2001 J. Harding & M. C. Harding Escape from Paradise 122 Mercifully, our high tech gallows use the ‘long drop’, so, the prisoner..dies instantly. 2014 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 11 Dec. I've perched on stinky long drops, strained on squat toilets and piddled behind bushes all over the world. extracted from longadj.¹n.¹ < as lemmas
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