| 单词 | parrot-perch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasparrot-perch parrot-perch n. †(a) Australian. Obsolete. rare = parrotfish n.; (b) [after Brazilian Portuguese pau de arara] (also parrot's perch) a horizontal bar used as an instrument of torture, the victim being suspended upside down with his or her legs bent over the bar; (also) this method of torture.Sense (a) is apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Scaridae (parrot-fish) Scarus1601 parrotfish1656 sea-parrot1666 scare1706 scaroa1717 scar1748 parrot wrasse1884 parrot-perch1898 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 342/1 Parrot-fish, name given in Australia to Pseudoscarus pseudolabrus; called in the Australian tropics Parrot-perch. 1974 C. Hampton Savages (1976) xii. 66 They..gave her all the usual treatment, more rape, electric shock, hanging her upside-down on the parrot perch and beating her. 1991 Soldier of Fortune Dec. 41/3 Victim is strapped on wooden bar and beaten in pau de arara, parrot's perch, a method of torture in Chile. 2003 Toronto Star (Nexis) 9 May a1 There's no ‘parrot perch’, or hanging metal bar that is a staple of most Brazilian prisons. < as lemmas |
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