单词 | beltful |
释义 | beltfuln. As much or as many as can be carried in or worn on a belt; spec. as many cartridges as a belt holds. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > cartridge > strip or belt > cartridges in belt beltful1843 1843 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 788/1 Are you grown so chicken-hearted that you don't see the beltful of money round his body? 1858 F. J. O'Brien in Harper's New Monthly Mag. Sept. 435 She would look a whole beltful of dagger-blades at you. 1899 Cent. Mag. Apr. 935/2 He was equipped with a gun and a beltful of cartridges, and sent out. 1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 131 The first [anti-aircraft] gun opened with a trial beltful. 1972 J. Kenyon Popish Plot vi. 186 Scroggs..returned from Circuit with a beltful of priestly scalps and full of bounce. 2011 Gloucestershire Echo (Nexis) 14 Oct. 2 When my boiler started pouring water out of its overflow pipe, he was first on the scene with a beltful of spanners. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1843 |
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