单词 | to nail up |
释义 | > as lemmasto nail up to nail up 1. transitive. To fasten, to close up firmly or fix shut with or as with nails; (also) to incarcerate (a person) in this way (rare). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > by nailing or screwing enclowc1430 to nail up1530 to screw up1761 to screw down1762 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 643/1 You muste seke some other waye, for this doore is nayled up. 1604 T. Middleton Blacke Bk. Moral That heauen is..made so fast, naylde vp with many a Starre. 1615 W. Lawson Country Housewifes Garden (1626) 12 Take heede of a doore or window..of any other mans into your Orchard: yea, though it be nailed vp. 1697 London Gaz. No. 3334/4 The Box nail'd up and Directed to Mrs. Ann Perriot. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 110. ¶5 The Door of one of his Chambers was nailed up. 1768 J. Cremer Jrnl. 18 July in R. R. Bellamy Ramblin' Jack (1936) 143 The old man wanted me to goe to bed; but I would not till I had nailed up the fore-Castle-head door. 1835 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz (1836) 1st Ser. II. 26 The old dog had nailed me up so securely, that..no one but a carpenter could ever have got me out. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxvii. 199 The hotel..was nailed up and forsaken. 1911 G. K. Chesterton Innocence of Father Brown vi. 149 The gardener, groom and cook had added to his many professions that of an undertaker, and had nailed up his noble master in a coffin. 1960 C. Achebe in Girls at War (1972) 37 He would not hear; his ears had been nailed up. 1993 M. Roberts Daughters of House 67 The day after he'd nailed up the door of the lavatory in the yard she used the indoor one straight after him. 1996 A. Baraka Funk Lore 25 We'll nail up your mouth if you try to sing. 2. transitive. To fasten up or fix at a height on a wall, etc., by means of nails. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > fastening > fasten [verb (transitive)] > with nails nailOE clencha1250 clinkc1440 rivetc1450 cloyc1460 clowa1522 to nail up1532 clinch1570 clint1575 inclavate1666 to nail down1669 1532 in Lett. & Papers Henry VIII (1965) V. 448 Pyne nails and English tacketts for nailing up the said buds and leaves. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 192 Who, if he have sacrificed an Oxe, useth to naile up the head and hornes at his gate. 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 285 Weatherboarding..is us'd to signifie the Boards themselves, when nail'd up. 1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 4 Nailing up some Valens to the Windows in the Dining-room. 1782 G. White Jrnl. 5 June (1970) xv. 205 My Bror Thomas White nailed-up several large 'scallop shells under the eaves..to see if the house-martins would build in them. 1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland iv. 83 This document was found nailed up on the Bishop of London's door. 1878 T. Hardy Return of Native III. v. vi. 174 He had spent the time in..nailing up creepers. 1941 V. Woolf Between Acts 35 The village idiot, who always tore down what had been nailed up. 1987 M. Collins Angel iii. 35 Help me nail up some board across de window! ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > putting weapons or equipment out of action > put weapons or equipment out of action [verb (transitive)] > silence a gun > by spiking clowa1522 peg1551 to nail up1562 cloy1577 nail1598 spick1623 spike1644 wedge1680 spike1687 1562 P. Whitehorne Certain Waies Orderyng Souldiers f. 34, in tr. N. Machiavelli Arte of Warre Ye touche holes of the artillerie to be nayled vp. 1654 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Compl. Hist. Warrs Flanders 385 Coming to their Batteries, they unhorst some of their Peeces, they nail'd up some others. 1690 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 37 They had also..burnt the town, took the fort and nailed up the guns. 1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 294 He ordered to nail up such of the Cannon as could be fought. 1763 L. Scrafton Refl. Govt. Indostan 69 The plan of operations was..to nail up the cannon, and push at the head quarters. 1781 Encycl. Brit. at Nailing Vimercalus..made use of his invention first in nailing up the artillery of Sigismund Malatesta. < as lemmas |
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