| 单词 | battling-stick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbattling-stick The action of beating with a ‘bat,’ battler, battledore, etc.; in quot. attributive. battling-bench, battling-board, battling-stick. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > [noun] > driving or beating tools braisinga1500 battling1519 maulingc1540 hammering1563 tilting1839 malleting1872 peening1885 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxviii. f. 239v Fet. iiii. battyllyng roddis [L. rudiculas] to beate this wolle. 1846 J. J. Hooper Taking Census in Some Adventures Simon Suggs (1851) II. 183 John Green's sister..goes to her battlin bench. 1848 J. J. Hooper Ride with Kit Kuncker in Widow Rugby's Husband (1851) 96 What a devil of a paddlin' the old woman gin him with the battlin'-stick. 1878 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Battling-stone, a large smooth-faced stone..by the side of a stream, on which washerwomen beat their linen to clean it. North. 1887 Harper's Mag. July 272/1 The splay legged battling-boards fastened themselves into the earth under the blows of the bats. < as lemmas |
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