| 单词 | brake-axe |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbrake-axe A clump of bushes, brushwood, or briers; a thicket. Also attributive, as in brake-axe. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > thicket, brake, or brush shaw755 thicketa1000 thyvela1000 greavec1050 wood-shawc1275 boscagec1400 greenwood shawc1405 thickc1430 brakec1440 shaw of wood1462 queach1486 bush1523 tuft1555 bushment1587 bocage1644 cripple1675 virgult1736 bluffc1752 thick-set1766 sylvagea1774 thicket-maze1813 bosk1815 woodlet1821 rush1822 puckerbrush1867 society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > axe > [noun] > other axes bole-axc1175 flesh-axe1424 stybill?a1500 brake-axe1590 holing-axe1819 side axe1871 hammer-axe1927 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 47 Brakebushe or fernebrake, filicetum. 1563 W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Jane Shore xviii What scratting bryers do growe upon such brakes. 1590 R. Payne Briefe Descr. Ireland (1841) 6 A simple workeman with a Brake axe will cleaue a greate Oke. 1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. xvi. 282 Their houses were caues, their pallaces brakes and thickets. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 175 So thick entwin'd, As one continu'd brake, the undergrowth Of shrubs. View more context for this quotation 1777 W. Anderson Jrnl. 30 Jan. in J. Cook Jrnls. (1967) III. ii. 790 Render'd almost impassable by shrubs, brakes of fern and fallen trees. 1821 P. B. Shelley Adonais xviii. 13 The amorous birds now pair in every brake. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xiv. 209 He saw again the cane-brakes and cypresses and gliding plantations. < as lemmas |
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