| 单词 | mend-fault |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmend-fault Prefixed to nouns, to form nouns with the sense ‘a person who or (occasionally) thing which mends’, in many words (chiefly names), as mend-all, †mend-breech, mend-fault, †mend-market. ΚΠ 1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 366 Howe syr Robert Vmgreuile brent Pebles on there market daye..and after the Scottes called hym Robyne Mendmarket. 1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 35v Feare flea smock, & mendbreech, for burning their bed. 1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. ii. 76 Jacke Cade..stiling himselfe Captaine Mend-all, marcheth..to Black-heath. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 174 The Commonwealth might better spare many famous for feats of Armes, than these Learned Mend-faults (in men, or States). 1734 B. Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack in Writings (1987) 1198 One Mend-fault is worth two Findfaults, but one Findfault is better than two Makefaults. 1958 W. Meredith Open Sea & Other Poems 13 A gold sunrise flecked with crows—Hailed as a mend-all in China. < as lemmas |
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