单词 | nagaika |
释义 | nagaikan. A short, thick, plaited leather whip, probably of Nogai origin, traditionally used in Russia (esp. by Cossacks). ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > urge on > with a whip > (types of) whip wandc1400 rod?a1475 riding rod?a1549 switch1597 quirka1616 whippet1616 shambrier1667 horsewhipa1691 whip-stick1782 lash-whip1787 flogger1789 string1839 nagaika1842 whalebone1842 quirt1845 switcher1847 ash-plant1850 hunting-crop1857 dick1864 bow-whip1890 1842 tr. J. G. Kohl Russia 410 The genuine Cossack of the steppe..depends only on his well plaited nagaika or whip, with which he rarely fails to cut down a wolf, as with a sabre. 1894 Harper's New Monthly Mag. 89 932 The one implement, as peculiar to the Cossack as the lasso to the cowboy, is the nagaika, or knout, a whip with a short thick handle and heavy lash, which is used instead of spurs. 1914 N. Jarintzoff Russia: Country of Extremes vii. 202 The nagaiki flashed in the air, heavily lashing people's faces. 1917 Daily Chron. 22 June 1/4 The Cossacks..drove off the agitators from the station with their nagaikas. 1931 E. Goldman Living my Life II. lii. 803 Nothing has changed... It was the Cossack and the nagaika before, the Chekists and shooting now. a1988 R. Conquest Eye of Storm in New & Coll. Poems (1988) 179 It blasts through closed eyelids. Nagaikas of lightning Lash at a bared heart. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1842 |
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