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单词 pine bank
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pine bankn.

Forms: see pine n.1 and bank n.2 also 1500s pinbanke.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; probably modelled on a Dutch lexical item. Etymons: pine n.1, bank n.2
Etymology: < pine n.1 + bank n.2, probably after Middle Dutch pijnbanc (Dutch pijnbank). Compare Middle Low German pīnebank, German †Peinbank (1584).
Obsolete.
The rack as an instrument of torture; = rack n.3 2b.Sometimes erroneously explained as ‘a bank or row of pins or spikes’.
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a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) i. xviii. sig. D.viiv Than he muste leaue his outwarde worshippe..and lye panting in his bed as it were on a pyne banke.
1550 J. Coke Deb. Heraldes Eng. & Fraunce sig. Miv Seuen dayes stretched on a pyne banke.
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Bailler la question.., to put one on the racke or pinbanke.
a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) iv. viii. f. 137 Carmonak..on the pyne bank confessit the tresoun.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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