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单词 to make a shaft or a bolt of it
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to make a shaft or a bolt of it
b. Phrase. to make a shaft or a bolt of it: to risk making something or other out of it; to accept the issue whatever it may be, to run the risk, make the venture. (Cf. to make a spoon or spoil a horn at spoon n. 3d.) Obsolete.
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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.
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