| 单词 | to fence out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto fence out 5. transitive. To keep out, ward off, repel. Said both of persons and things. Also to fence off, to fence out. Often with mixture of sense 6. archaic. 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 > authority > subjection > prohibition > prohibit [verb (transitive)] > debar (a person) forbarc1330 shutc1400 debarc1430 repel1480 abara1504 abridge1523 seclude?1531 bar1551 fence1589 bebar1650 limit1722 to shut out1819 stop-list1949 1589 R. Greene Ciceronis Amor 55 A cloake of gray fencst the raine. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre i. ix. 14 The Bosporus was too narrow a ditch..to fense the Pagans out of West-Christendome. 1643 J. Burroughes Expos. Hosea (1652) viii. 285 They fenced off thy word as with a shield. c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 130 These high banks are made to..ffence out ye water. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 170 They had..no Bows to fence off the Waves. 1748 W. Shenstone School-mistress viii, in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems (ed. 2) I. 250 A russet kirtle fenc'd the nipping air. 1785 W. Paley Moral & Polit. Philos. (1818) II. 342 Government is well warranted in fencing out the whole sect from situations of trust and power. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vi, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 118 A cup of sack shall fence the cold. < as lemmas |
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