| 单词 | to ride a cock-horse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto ride a cock-horse a. Mounted as if on a horse; astride something. Frequently with on (or upon), specifying the object mounted. Frequently in to ride a cock-horse.Often with reference to a child either playing on a toy hobby horse (or a stick used in the same way), or being bounced on an adult’s legs as if he or she were riding a horse, often to the accompaniment of the nursery rhyme beginning ‘Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross’ (see quot. 1788). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > position of specific body parts > [adverb] > legs striddlingc1440 lirylongc1460 a (also on) cock-horse1564 cock-horse1566 stridelong1609 astride1664 stride-legged1688 a-straddle1703 stride-leg1809 straddle-legged1817 striddle-legs1825 straddle-leg1836 straddleback1839 straddle1857 strideways1859 straddle-wise1865 straddle-fashion1873 straddleways1919 1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 49v The Drake with all the water foules, did stope lowe, and receiue their carriage, and when thei were all a kockehorse together, thei wente into the water. 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft iii. xvi. 66 They..passe so farre in so little a space on cockhorsse [i.e. on broomsticks]. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. vi. iv. 376 Sometimes he would ride a cock-horse with his children, though Alcibiades scoffed at him for it. 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xix. 48 The Whale..swimmeth presently ashore, and the Indian a cock-horse vpon him. 1660 Char. Italy 7 His Petrified Sanctity riding a Cock-horse on mens shoulders. 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 134 And Ralpho got a Cock-horse too Upon his Beast, with much adoe. 1689 R. Milward Selden's Table-talk 47 When you would have a Child go to such a place, and you find him unwilling, you tell him he shall ride a Cock-horse. 1703 E. Ward Pleasures of Matrimony vi. 92 Nothing would serve her but to ride on Cock-Horse, as I may say, at one time upon the Elephant, and another time to bestride Tom Dove. 1788 ‘Nurse Lovechild’ Tommy Thumb's Song Bk. 56 Ride a Cock Horse, To Banbury Cross, To see what Tommy can buy. 1852 C. de Chatelain tr. H. C. Andersen Tales 29 No sooner did they sit a cock-horse upon it [sc. a stick], than its shining knob changed to a pretty, neighing head, with a flowing black mane. 1863 Ld. Lytton Ring of Amasis I. i. ii. i. 83 When I was only able—equitare in arundine longa—to ride a-cockhorse on a stick. 1990 T. Griggs Quickening viii. 59 He'd been made to ride-a-cock-horse on one of those feet, straddling ankles like hips, and he'd nearly died of fright. 2007 A. Enright Gathering (2008) xxxvii. 246 Mossie, who sits him on one long leg and jounces him, hard, Ride a cock horse, threatening to spill him on to the floor. < as lemmas |
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