| 单词 | redder's blow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasredder's blow In the genitive, designating a blow or mistreatment suffered by one who separates combatants (also figurative), as redder's blow, redder's lick, redder's part, redder's stroke. Cf. redding stroke n. at redding n.3 Compounds. ΚΠ 1691 G. Rule Farther Vindic. Church Scotl. 12 Which is indeed a difficil task, wherein the redders blowes from both parties may rationally be expected. 1697 in G. H. Rose Sel. Papers Earls of Marchmont (1831) III. 128 [One week] the one side was offended at me, and another week the other; thus I plainly get the reddor's strokes. 1802 J. Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poetry Gloss. at Red Hence Redding blow or Redder's part, viz., a blow or hatred from both parties. 1820 W. Scott Abbot I. vii. 159 He may come by the redder's lick, and that is ever the worst of the battle. 1861 H. Keddie My Heart's in Highlands xxii. 401 She was beaten and could not submit to her proverbially hard portion, the ‘redder's lick’. 1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood xi. 182 It's a kittle thing, and him that invokes it is like to get the redder's straik. < as lemmas |
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