单词 | pine bank |
释义 | † pine bankn. Obsolete. The rack as an instrument of torture; = rack n.3 2b.Sometimes erroneously explained as ‘a bank or row of pins or spikes’. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > instrument or place of torture > [noun] > rack ginc1225 enginea1450 framec1480 rack1481 brake1530 pine banka1535 pine bauk1542 Duke of Exeter's daughter1618 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). < n.a1535 |
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