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单词 to keep cave
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to keep cave
Beware! A signal of warning, e.g. of the approach of a master. Also used substantively in to keep cave.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > warning of imminent danger or evil > warning cry [interjection] > to warn of someone's approach
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cave1868
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > keeping watch > keep watch [verb (intransitive)] > while another acts
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to keep nit1883
to keep cave1906
to keep yow1942
1584 R. Greene Gwydonius f. 6v Nowe thou wilte crye Caue when thy coyne is consumed, and beware when thy wealth is wracked.]
1868 Cassell's Mag. 17 Oct. 390/1 [Title of Poem] Cave!
1873 ‘A. R. Hope’ Night before Holidays 110 There was a heavy footstep sounding along the passage... ‘Cave!’ ‘Canem,’ responded Lessing, burying himself under the bedclothes again.
1883 M. E. Braddon Phantom Fortune xxxvi That indefinable air..which gives society as fair a warning as if the man wore a placard on his shoulder with the word Cave.
1906 E. Nesbit Railway Children xiv. 295 He won't keep cave, shirks his turn And says he came to school to learn!
1922 Blackwood's Mag. May 557/2 One of their number doing sentry-go gives the native equivalent for the schoolboy's ‘Cave’ on the reappearance of their employer.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xvii. 373 The term ‘keeping cave’..only rarely extends to boys who do not possess any Latin... The look-out in a grammar school..may call just ‘Cave!’ (pronounced kave or kay-ve).
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