单词 | rail-ridden |
释义 | > as lemmasrail-ridden rail-ridden adj. punished by being ridden on a rail. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [adjective] > carried on a log or pole rail-ridden1865 1865 Morning Star 19 July A Woman Tarred and Rail-ridden. 1913 H. L. Mencken in Smart Set May 108/1 Even the fellow who denounces Baltimore most bitterly—the baffled seller of green goods, the scorned and rail-ridden ballyhoo man—is willing, once his torn cartilages have begun to knit, to grant the old town some measure of that bewitchment. < as lemmas |
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