单词 | spear-pointed |
释义 | > as lemmasspear-pointed d. With adjectives, as spear-headed, spear-pointed, spear-straight, etc. ΚΠ 1561 Burning St. Paul's ⁋2 (Camden) A long and a speare pointed flame of fier. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres ii. 20 A speare-headed staffe, sharpe pointed with iron. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Phaseolus The American phaseolus, with a sinuated and spear-pointed leaf. 1777 R. Potter tr. Æschylus Tragedies 148 Sev'n chiefs of high command, In arms spear-proof, take their appointed stand. 1846 W. S. Landor Citation & Exam. Shakespere in Wks. II. 295 Rushes spear high. 1848 J. R. Lowell Poems 2nd Ser. 69 A stem..Standing spear-straight in the waist-deep moss. 1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 59/2 No spear-pointed drill can be tempered hard enough not to break. 1919 J. Masefield Reynard the Fox ii. 107 With spear-straight stern. < as lemmas |
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