| 单词 | to cleek hold |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cleek hold (of) 1. transitive. To seize with the clutch or hand; to lay hold of, clutch, grasp, or seize, firmly, suddenly, or eagerly. Also to cleek hold (of). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > hold [verb (transitive)] > lay hold of or grasp > suddenly or forcibly catcha1250 titc1330 beclapc1386 clutch1393 clitcha1400 cleekc1440 cletch1612 click1651 get1831 to seize hold of1839 c1440 York Myst. xxx. 240 An I cleke yowe, I schall felle yow. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ii. l. 98 Be the coler claucht him with-outyn baid. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xi. xv. 89 Thai claucht and lappyt in thar armys This queyn. 1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 1169 in Wks. (1931) I The gled the pece claucht in his cluke. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Riv/2 Cleake, corripere. a1640 T. Jackson Μαραν Αθα (1657) 3641 The proposal..makes souls so affected, cleek the faster hold. 1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 217 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 564 The carlin claught her by the rump, And left poor Maggie scarce a stump. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xviii. 278 Wanting to cleik the cunzie (that is, to hook the silver). View more context for this quotation 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 135 I made what haste I could to cleek the callant. < as lemmas |
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