单词 | small timber |
释义 | > as lemmassmall timber a. transferred. Applied to any object familiar to the speaker, composed wholly or chiefly of wood, as †a spear-shaft; †a bowl; a ship; the stocks (slang); wooden gates and fences (Hunting slang); a wicket (Cricket slang); an arrow (rare); small timber, lucifer matches (street slang). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > shaft of spear spear-shafta900 ashOE shaftc1000 truncheon13.. tree?a1366 timberc1400 sting?a1500 spear-staff1530 steal1530 rodc1540 stale1553 stave1873 staff- society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > equipment spear of peacea1400 timberc1400 tilting-staff1602 Saracen1637 tilt-staff1651 tilting armour1819 tilting-helmet1846 tilting-lance1863 tilting spear- the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > [noun] > riding after hounds > type of fence timber1791 rasper1812 stopper1832 jump1858 oxer1859 flying fence1883 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > equipment > [noun] > wicket wicket1662 stick1829 timber1840 gate1851 castle1959 society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > punishing by pillory or stocks > pillory or stocks stocksc1325 pilloryc1330 stocka1382 gofe1489 stretchneck1543 harmans1567 foot trap1585 pigeonholes1592 jougs1596 berlina1607 halsfang1607 gorget1635 cippusa1637 nutcrackers1648 catasta1664 wooden cravat1676 the wooden ruff1677 neck stock1681 wooden casement1685 timber-stairsc1750 Norway neckcloth1785 law-neck-cloth1789 stoop1795 timber1851–4 nerve1854 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > [noun] > wooden timber1871 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun] streale?680 floc893 arrowOE pileOE bolta1000 flanea1000 archer1297 shaftc1400 grey-goose wing1566 dorlach1575 goose-wing1630 shaftment1634 fate1700 timberc1879 c1400 Rowland & O. 455 Theyre Ioynynge was so harde that tyde That theyre timbir in sondire gan ryde. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin vii. 117 [They] mette to-geder on the sheldis, so that the horse ne myght not passe ferther till the tymbres were broken. a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 2349 [I pray] that thou woldist my son lere, Hys Tymber ffor to asay. 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd iii. ii Come, turn the timmer to laird Patie's health. 1791 ‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsemanship vi. 26 The leaps large and frequent, and a great deal of timber to get over. 1840 Bell's Life in London 2 Aug. 2/2 Morewood joined Morrier, who at length received a ‘Winchester screw’, which shattered his timber. 1851–4 D. Jerrold C. Snub in Men of Char. i The squire..gives me over to the beadle, who claps me here in the timber. 1857 G. A. Lawrence Guy Livingstone iii. 17 They..would grind over..the March Gibbon double timber as..undauntedly as over the accommodating Bullingdon hurdles. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems iv. 3 Nor yet a timber o'er the waves alertly flew. 1876 in Bettesworth Walkers of Southgate (1900) 332 Appleby..dislodged Webbe's timbers by his second ball in the first over. c1879 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 180 Yet Arthur is a Bowman: his three-heeled timber'll hit The bald and bóld blínking gold when áll's dóne. < as lemmas |
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