| 单词 | rack stave |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrack stave rack stave n. now rare one of the upright staves of a rack (cf. sense 1). ΚΠ 1382 in J. C. Tingey Rec. City of Norwich (1910) II. 47 (MED) [For nails and] rackestavis. 1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Sheep (1627) 202 Their racks to be made..with rack-staues set nigh together of a good length. a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) i. xvi. 166 Them that tie their horses to the rack-staves. 1704 Dict. Rusticum at Low-worm He will gnaw the Manger, Rack-Staves, or any thing within his reach. 1802 in C. R. Lounsbury Illustr. Gloss. Early Southern Archit. & Landscape (1994) 302 Rack staves 1/156 holes 6d. 1933 I. Wyatt Bk. of Huish in Notes & Queries (1936) 7 Mar. 167/2 Killed him with his own soldering iron which they were careful to replace in the smithy, leaving a blood-marked rack stave conspicuously near the corpse. < as lemmas |
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