| 单词 | raking down |
| 释义 | > as lemmasraking down a. The action of rake v.2 (in various senses). Also with adverbs, as raking down, raking over, raking together. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > [noun] > raking raking1440 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 422 Rakynge, rastratura. 1474–5 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 95 Pro..le rakyng circa muros coquine. 1550 R. Crowley Way to Wealth sig. Bv Howe you have obeyed the lawes in rakeinge together of fermes. 1579 Edinb. Dean of Guild Accts. 80 To James Ȝuill gardiner for raiking and making of the kirk flure xvj s. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. xi. 150 There would be foul raking in the dust. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables clxxxviii. 158 That which Some call Good Husbandry, Industry and Providence, Others call Raking, Avarice, and Oppression. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine sig. Gg3 This is frequently called raking fore and aft. 1798 J. Middleton View Agric. Middlesex 92 Much labour..is bestowed, in the raking, picking and burning of weeds. 1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows ii. xv. 111 The raking of the guns across The world. 1881 Gardeners' Chron. No. 411. 626 The raking of an adequate quantity of Oak and Chestnut leaves and carting them to the leaf-coop, with which to make up hotbeds, etc. 1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 18 Apr. 8 There should be full scale raking down of land and sowing. 1988 M. Forster Elizabeth Barrett Browning xii. 202 That endless self-analysis, that constant raking over of the past which provided the ground upon which she worked. raking down 5. Chiefly U.S. A rebuke, a scolding; a ‘dressing down’. Usually in raking down. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] > instance of admonishingc1350 reproofc1400 fliting1435 rebuke?a1439 snibc1450 reprehensiona1500 redargution1514 remorda1529 piece of one's mind1536 check1541 snuba1556 rebuking1561 boba1566 sneap1600 snipping1601 reprimand1636 repriment1652 rubber1699 slap1736 twinkation1748 rap1777 throughgoing1817 dressing-down1823 downset1824 hazing1829 snubbing1841 downsetting1842 raking1852 calling1855 talking toc1875 rousting1900 strafe1915 strafing1915 raspberry1919 rousing1923 bottle1938 reaming1944 ticking-off1950 serve1967 1852 Davenport (Iowa) Gaz. 13 Mar. 2/3 Kossuth's speech was remarkable peculiarly, for the raking down given the Jesuits and the raking up conferred upon the Irish. 1883 J. D. Shields Life & Times S. S. Prentiss 125 He cheerfully paid it, vowing that the ‘raking down’ which Prentiss had given his prosecutor was worth that. 1907 Black Cat Jan. 7 I'll bet somebody has got a raking for losing it. 2001 P. Veryan Riddle Shipwrecked Spinster 312 He had to endure a royal raking down before he was able to tell her of Florian's innocence. < as lemmas |
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