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单词 raking-looking
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raking-looking
1. That moves forward rapidly; fast-moving, fast. Also raking-looking adj. Cf. racking adj.1In quot. ?a1475: thrusting, jabbing.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [adjective] > swift
raking?a1475
stirring horse1477
fire hoofed1621
fire-footeda1734
spanking1740
brushing1792
fast-gaited1841
?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 170 (MED) Kyllyth knaue chylderyn and castyth hem in clay..doth rowncys rennyn with rakynge raftys tyl rybbys be to-rent with a reed ray.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxxi. 255 By the raking pace of my Mule, quoth Rondibilis, I know not what Answer to make to this Problem of yours.
1722 Quarles' Divine Fancies (ed. 9) III. lxviii. 113 Some ride upon the raking [1632 racking] Steeds of Treasure.
1794 Har'st Rig lxxx. 26 But raiking clouds now gather fast; And a' the lift does soon o'er cast.
1840 Southern Literary Messenger 6 346/2 A handsome raking-looking young fellow who just then entered the room.
1862 G. J. Whyte-Melville Inside Bar ii A well-bred, raking-looking sort of mare.
1883 C. J. Wills In Land of Lion & Sun 61 A big, coarse, raking chestnut, that took all the boy who rode him could do to hold him.
1945 Salamanca (N.Y.) Republican-Press 16 Feb. 6/6 The Russians are using a new raking looking tank called the Pike.
1959 W. Thesiger Arabian Sands (1964) iii. 70 The boy..moved with a long, raking stride, like a camel.
1992 Athletics Today 12 Aug. (Suppl.) 17/1 At touchdown after the first hurdle, Young was alongside Akabusi, his raking stride beating out once again the relentless 13-stroke rhythm.
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