英语词汇“the edge of the sword”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(a) The thin sharpened side of the blade of a cutting instrument or weapon; opposed to the ‘back’ or blunt side; or to the ‘flat’ or broad surface of the blade. Often associated with point (Old English ord). the edge of the sword: used rhetorically for ‘the sword’ as the typical instrument of slaughter or of conquest.

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the world > space > shape > sharpness of edge or point > [noun] > sharp edge

edgeOE

facea1382

cutting edge1825

knife-edge1871

knife-blade1902

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > sword > [noun] > blade of sword > edge

edgeOE

OE Beowulf 1549 Breostnet..wið ord ond wið ecge ingang forstod.

c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xxi. 24 Hig feallað on swurdes ecge [c1160 egge].

c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 61 He wile smite..mid egge and cleuen..oðer mid orde and pilten.

c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iv. 899 Beth rather to hym cause of flat than egge.

c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 735 Hoc acumen, Hec acies, a neg.

1594 H. Plat Diuerse Sorts of Soyle 20 in Jewell House Some kindes of salt..doe giue such temper to the edges of weapons.

1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xxxiv. 26 They slew Hamor and Shechem..with the edge of the sword .

1611 Bible (King James) Heb. xi. 34 [They] escaped the edge of the sword .

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 167 I will..giue to th'edge o'th'Sword His Wife.

1649 J. Milton Tenure of Kings 23 And what restraint the Sword comes to at length, having both edge and point, if any Sceptic will needs doubt, let him feel.

1797 W. Godwin Enquirer i. ii. 9 A tool with a fine edge may do mischief.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth i, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 20 When it was steel coat to frieze mantle, the thieves knew..whether swords had edges or no.

1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xvii. 54 The King by the edge of the sword changed himself..into a King according to the laws of England.

单词	the edge of the sword
释义	> as lemmas the edge of the sword (a) The thin sharpened side of the blade of a cutting instrument or weapon; opposed to the ‘back’ or blunt side; or to the ‘flat’ or broad surface of the blade. Often associated with point (Old English ord). the edge of the sword: used rhetorically for ‘the sword’ as the typical instrument of slaughter or of conquest. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > sharpness of edge or point > [noun] > sharp edge edgeOE facea1382 cutting edge1825 knife-edge1871 knife-blade1902 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > sword > [noun] > blade of sword > edge edgeOE OE Beowulf 1549 Breostnet..wið ord ond wið ecge ingang forstod. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xxi. 24 Hig feallað on swurdes ecge [c1160 egge]. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 61 He wile smite..mid egge and cleuen..oðer mid orde and pilten. c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iv. 899 Beth rather to hym cause of flat than egge. c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 735 Hoc acumen, Hec acies, a neg. 1594 H. Plat Diuerse Sorts of Soyle 20 in Jewell House Some kindes of salt..doe giue such temper to the edges of weapons. 1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xxxiv. 26 They slew Hamor and Shechem..with the edge of the sword . View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) Heb. xi. 34 [They] escaped the edge of the sword . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 167 I will..giue to th'edge o'th'Sword His Wife. View more context for this quotation 1649 J. Milton Tenure of Kings 23 And what restraint the Sword comes to at length, having both edge and point, if any Sceptic will needs doubt, let him feel. 1797 W. Godwin Enquirer i. ii. 9 A tool with a fine edge may do mischief. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth i, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 20 When it was steel coat to frieze mantle, the thieves knew..whether swords had edges or no. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xvii. 54 The King by the edge of the sword changed himself..into a King according to the laws of England. extracted from edgen. < as lemmas
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