| 单词 | to flesh one's sword |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto flesh one's (maiden, virgin) sword a. To plunge (a weapon, etc.) into the flesh. Also (originally with allusion to 1 or 2a), to flesh one's (maiden, virgin) sword: to use it for the first time upon flesh, to fight one's first battle. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle [verb (intransitive)] > fight one's first battle to flesh one's (maiden, virgin) sword1590 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or penetrate (of weapon) [verb (transitive)] > strike with pointed weapon > thrust a pointed weapon putc1275 shovec1275 rivec1330 stickc1390 stub1576 haft1582 uphilt1582 gar1587 embosom1590 emboss1590 flesh1590 imbrue1590 stabc1610 scour1613 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. I2v He..Beats downe our foes to flesh our taintlesse swords. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 261 The wild dogge Shal flesh his tooth on euery innocent. View more context for this quotation 1622 T. Dekker & P. Massinger Virgin Martir i. sig. B2v Antoninus, So well hath fleshd his maiden sword. 1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey V. xx. 461 Impatient strait to flesh his virgin-sword. 1866 Cornhill Mag. May 630 These rude retainers..sometimes finish by fleshing their knives to the haft in each other. 1872 F. Francis Bk. Angling (ed. 3) iv. 106 The barbs of the hooks not being fleshed in the pike. < as lemmas |
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