单词 | bare-poled |
释义 | > as lemmasbare-poled c. Of cloth: Napless, threadbare. Of weapons: Unsheathed. bare poles in Nautical use: masts with no sails set; also bare-poled adj., having bare poles; also transferred, of trees lacking leaves or branches. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or thrust with sword > [adjective] > drawn nakedeOE drawnc1175 streitc1386 unscauberkedc1430 unsheathedc1430 bare1483 unscabbarded1562 the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > by loss of material or wasted > worn > worn bare > threadbare threadbare1362 bare1483 bare (also) worn to the thread1483 peeled?a1513 sere1523 pilled1548 napless1596 thready1910 society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > with sails set [phrase] > with no sails set under bare poles1697 bare poles1762 society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > [adjective] > with sails set > not bare-poled1851 the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [adjective] > of or having branch(es) > without leaves or branches armless1596 branchless1611 unbranched1731 limbless1770 boughless1839 boughed1852 bare-poled1864 staggy1933 rownsepyked1937 c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 262 With a threedbare cope, as is a poure scoler.] 1483 Act 1 Rich. III viii. Pream. Course Clothes..bare of Threde. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. iv. 44 Their bare Liueries. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. i. 2 Weare thy good Rapier bare . View more context for this quotation 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) A cloth is said to be bare or naked, when the nap is too short. 1762 Let. 11 Nov. in Ann. Reg. 1762 (1787) 117/2 The ship sprung a leak, and we were obliged to lie to under bare poles. 1774 N. Cresswell Jrnl. 5 Aug. (1925) 31 To furl the F.S. [i.e. fore-sail] and scud under bare pole. 1780 W. Coxe Acct. Russ. Discov. 130 Drove 24 hours under bare poles. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick cxix. 555 The Pequod..bare-poled was left to fight a Typhoon. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Charge Light Brigade iii, in Maud & Other Poems 152 Flash'd all their sabres bare. 1864 J. A. Grant Walk across Afr. 33 Open forests of bare-poled trees. < as lemmas |
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