单词 | to bear off |
释义 | > as lemmasto bear off to bear off ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > escape > escape from [verb (transitive)] > ward off harm withhold13.. defendc1330 to bear offc1380 withstand1398 shielda1400 repela1450 to keep off1548 repulse1560 warda1586 fence1589 shelter1621 ward1759 fend-off1830 to fend back1877 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > stroke with weapon > strike with a weapon [verb (transitive)] > ward off stroke to bear offc1380 keepc1450 c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 572 (MED) Þe Sarsyn anon bar of þe stroke with ys scheld. a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 37v A demie, bukram cassok..which will neither beare of winde nor wether. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 18 Here's neither bush, nor shrub to beare off any weather at all: and another Storme brewing. 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 27 His Helmet, to beare off blowes in battell. a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1714) xix. 305 The stubborn Quakers brake their Strength, and bore off the Blow from those other Dissenters. 2. transitive. Backgammon. To remove (one's pieces) from the board according to a roll of the dice, once all of them have been moved onto one's inner table (table n. 4b). ΚΠ 1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes liii. sig. Bviiiv I will no more plaie at tables with the: Whan we come to bearyng, thou begylest me, In bearyng of thy men. 1734 R. Seymour Compl. Gamester (ed. 5) I. 57 You play your Men as fast as you can, into his Tables..; which being done, you bear off your Men. 1850 H. G. Bohn et al. Hand-bk. Games iv. 435 If one player has not borne off his first man before the other has borne off his last, he loses a ‘gammon’. 2013 @Ensor42 17 May in twitter.com (accessed 19 Feb. 2019) A player can only bear off checkers once all of their pieces are in. 3. intransitive. Nautical. Of a ship: to move away from the land or another vessel. ΚΠ 1594 R. Bowes Let. 10 May (P.R.O.: SP 52/53) f. 48 The companye would not suffer him, and caused him to beare off untill the night was comed and the tyde paste. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 44 When she would not come neere the land, but goeth more Roome-way than her couse [sic], wee say she beares off. 1823 C. de Roquefeuil Voy. Round World 36 The depth, (sixty-four fathoms,) being too great to allow me to anchor, I bore off. 2015 ABC Premium News (Austral.) (Nexis) 26 Dec. We had to bear off to avoid a starboard-port collision. 4. transitive. To carry off (something stolen or won); to take away (a person) against his or her will. Cf. to bear away 1a at Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > make a success of [verb (transitive)] > win (any contest or prize) > win (a prize, etc.) to bear awayc1325 getc1330 winc1330 to go away with1489 to carry away1565 carry1570 to bear off?1615 to carry off1680 to take out1976 ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xiv. 364 Many games About Heroes Sepulchers, mine eyes Haue seene perform'd: But these, bore off the prize. 1813 W. Scott Rokeby iii. xxvi. 141 We are enow to storm the hold, Bear off the plunder and the dame. 1905 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 341 He captures a Chinese princess, and then in another expedition bears off a Nepalese princess; these were among the prizes of his fierce and gloomy reign. 2017 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 22 Nov. 18 Teenage lads regularly raided the efforts of the competition.., bearing off their booty of fuel to be added to their own pyre. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > push > aside shouldera1400 to bear off1627 shunt1706 elbow1712 horn1851 breast1853 shove1861 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away > by pushing push1530 to bear off1627 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 44 A ship boord, beare off is vsed to euery thing you would thrust from you. 1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) 36/2 ‘Bear off the boat!’ ‘Bear off that cask!’ 1915 T. J. Michie Treat. Law Carriers IV. vii. xxxvii. 3903 It is not the duty of a mate in loading casks of wine from a lighter,..to..bear off with his own hands the casks from the side. < as lemmas |
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