单词 | boot-hale |
释义 | † boot-halev. Obsolete. 1. intransitive. To carry off booty or spoil; to practise plundering, marauding or pilfering. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > sacking, raiding, or looting > sack, raid, or loot [verb (intransitive)] harryc893 skeckc1330 skicka1400 cry havoc1419 foray1487 raven1570 booty1580 rapine1580 pillage1593 boot-hale1598 to make boota1599 ravage1604 scummer1633 maraud1684 loot1842 raid1848 1598 [implied in: J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Gualda, a bootehaling [1611 bootie-haling], a freebooting. (at boot-haling n. 1)]. 1609 T. Heywood tr. Sallust Hist. Warre of Iugurth viii. 33 in tr. Sallust Two Worthy & Notable Hist. Some made Merchandize of Fugitiues, and others went a boot-haling into the confederate countries. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Butiner, to prey, get bootie..to bootehale it. a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 150 A people forward to Boot-hale, and consume, but backward to the duties of War. a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 182. 2. transitive. To spoil; to pillage; to plunder. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > sacking, raiding, or looting > sack, raid, or loot [verb (transitive)] reaveOE harrowc1000 ravishc1325 spoil1382 forayc1400 forage1417 riflea1425 distrussc1430 riotc1440 detruss1475 sacka1547 havoc1575 sackage1585 pillagea1593 ravage1602 yravish1609 boot-hale1610 booty-hale1610 plunder1632 forage1642 rape1673 prig1819 loot1845 raid1875 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God iii. xxvi. 145 Boote-hal'd all the Coast vnto Caieta. 1625 W. Lisle tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Noe in tr. Part of Du Bartas 133 No Hircan Tygers flight boot-hailes thy vaulted hills. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < v.1598 |
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