| 单词 | timber-mare |
| 释义 | > as lemmastimber-mare timber-mare n. a kind of wooden horse on which offending soldiers and others were made to ride as a punishment. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > gallows gallowsOE gallows-treea1000 warytre?a1200 gibbet?c1225 gallow-forka1250 forkc1275 juisec1320 forchesc1380 crossa1382 treec1425 patible1428 justice1484 potencec1500 haltera1533 turning-tree1548 potentc1550 three treesa1566 chates1567 mare1568 furel1587 bough1590 gibe1590 derrickc1600 hangrella1605 cross-tree1638 Gregorian tree1641 wooden horse1642 timber-marec1650 triple tree1651 furca1653 nubbing1673 a horse that was foaled of an acorn1678 nub1699 Tyburn tree1728 raven-stone1738 picture frame1785 crap1789 lamp-iron1790 Moll Blood1818 stifler1818 scragging-post1819 government signposta1828 leafless tree1830 shuggie-shue1836 doom-tree1837 stob1860–62 society > authority > punishment > torture > instrument or place of torture > [noun] > wooden horse wooden horse1629 horse1648 timber-marec1650 wooden mare1819 c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 290 He causit big wp..ane tymber meir, quhairvpone runnaget knaves and runaway soldiouris sould ryde. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Horse A wooden machine which soldiers ride by way of punishment. It is sometimes called a timber-mare. < as lemmas |
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