| 单词 | to bestir one's stumps |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto bestir one's stumps b. transitive. To rouse into activity, make active. to bestir one's stumps (obsolete): to move one's limbs actively, to exert oneself: see stir n.1 ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] tillc897 stightlea1375 stretcha1375 wrestlea1382 to put it forthc1390 to put one's hand(s) to (also unto)a1398 paina1400 takea1400 to do one's busy pain (also care, cure, diligence)?a1430 to make great force?c1450 makec1485 to stir one's stumpsa1500 to bestir one's stumps1549 to make work1574 put1596 bestira1616 operate1650 to lay out1659 to be at pains1709 exerta1749 tew1787 maul1821 to take (the) trouble1830 to pull outc1835 bother1840 trouble1880 to buck up1890 hump1897 to go somea1911 the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > stir up or rouse up stirc1000 aweccheOE stirc1175 arear?c1225 awakec1315 amovec1330 araisec1374 wake1398 wakenc1400 to stir upa1500 incend?1504 to firk upc1540 bestir1549 store1552 bustlea1555 tickle1567 solicitate1568 to stir one's taila1572 exsuscitate1574 rouse1574 suscitate1598 accite1600 actuate1603 arousea1616 poach1632 roust1658 to shake up1850 to galvanize to or into life1853 to make things (or something specified) hum1884 to jack up1914 rev1945 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Heb. xii. f. xxiiii Bestyre youre werye handes. 1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 34 The duety of euery men [sic] in a common wealth, one way or other to bestirre his stoomps. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 407 This raungyng Rhetorician besturreth his stumps so earnestly. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 51 No maruaile you haue so bestir'd your valour. View more context for this quotation 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 59 Bestirring their Hands and Tooles. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country iii. 178 More need that heirs, His natural protectors, should assume The management, bestir their counsinship. < as lemmas |
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