| 单词 | make a balk |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make a balk a. A ridge or piece left unploughed by accident or carelessness; a piece missed in ploughing. (Often in phrase to make a balk or balks.) ΚΠ c1420 Pallad. on Husb. ii. 15 The balke, that thai calle, unered lande And overheled, beholde that there be noon. c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) vii. viii b 172 Making no balkes, ye plough was truely hold. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. vv If he go to the ploughe & loke backewarde he seyth nat whyder the plough..make a balke. 1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times iv. vi. 147 The husbandman may dart forth an Ejaculation and not make a balke the more. 1739 Burkitt's Expos. Notes N.T. (ed. 11) Luke ix. 62 He that ploughs must keep on, and make no Balks. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 277/2 The leaving of balks is a great fault, and is owing to..the ploughman not holding his plough upright. to make a balk ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > be mistaken, err [verb (intransitive)] dwelec900 haltc900 marOE slidea1000 misfangOE missOE to have wough?c1225 misnimc1225 misrekec1275 mis-startc1275 err1303 to go wrongc1340 misgo1340 slipc1340 snapperc1380 forvay1390 to miss of ——c1395 to make a balkc1430 to run in ——1496 trip1509 fault1530 mistake1548 misreckon1584 misstep1605 warpa1616 solecize1627 hallucinate1652 nod1677 to go will1724 to fare astray (misliche, amiss)a1849 slip1890 skid1920 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [noun] misnimming?c1225 errora1340 defaulta1387 balkc1430 fault1523 jeofail1546 errat1548 trip1548 naught1557 missa1568 missinga1568 slide1570 snappera1572 amiss1576 mistaking1579 misprize1590 mistake1600 berry-block1603 solecism1603 fallibility1608 stumblea1612 blota1657 slur1662 incorrectnessa1771 bumble1823 skew1869 (to make) a false step1875 slip-up1909 ricket1958 bad1981 c1430 Hymns to Virg. (1867) 92 Þouȝ a ȝong man make a balke, Ȝit take to þi mynde reuertere. 1661 W. Annand Panem Qvotidianvm 18 They..make such bawlks in their prayer. 1717 T. Tudway in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 311 Bentley's baulks and blunders about the king's reception. < as lemmas |
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