单词 | to buy a bastoned gown of |
释义 | > as lemmasto buy a bastoned gown of (a person) Perhaps: that has been beaten or thrashed. Only attested in to buy a bastoned gown of (a person), apparently an idiomatic phrase with the sense ‘to beat or thrash (a person) soundly’. Cf. baston v., bastinaded adj. at bastinade v. Derivatives. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of striking with specific blunt weapon > [adjective] > struck with specific blunt weapon bastoned1593 staveda1625 bludgeoned1887 coshed1896 1593 J. Dee 22 Feb. in Private Diary (1842) 43 I told him that he did lye in so saying, and that I wold try on the fleysh of him, or by a bastaned gown of him, if he wer not prisoner in the Towr. < as lemmas |
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