单词 | to make a shaft or a bolt of it |
释义 | > as lemmasto make a shaft or a bolt of it ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > chance [verb (intransitive)] > run a risk or take one's chance to take one's chancec1325 to take penancec1400 to throw at allc1400 to buy a pig (in Scotl. a cat) in a poke1546 to throw the helve after the hatchet1546 to set (up) one's rest1579 to give the adventure1607 to make a shaft or a bolt of ita1616 to run a fortune1627 to run for luck1799 to go the vole1816 chance1863 to chance one's arm1889 to take a chance or chances1902 gamble1919 a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. iv. 24 Ile make a shaft or a bolt on't, slid, tis but venturing. View more context for this quotation 1679 tr. Trag. Hist. Jetzer 17 Without any regard to the Displeasure..of God [they] resolv'd to make a shaft or a bolt of it. 1687 R. L'Estrange Answer to Let. to Dissenter 46 One might have made a Bolt or a Shaft on't. < as lemmas |
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