单词 | to pass under the spear |
释义 | > as lemmasto pass under the spear ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > a public sale > hold a sale [verb (intransitive)] > be sold by auction go?a1425 to pass under the spear1600 go (also come) to (or under) the hammer1842 society > trade and finance > selling > a public sale > sell by public sale [verb (transitive)] > sell by auction roup1513 to sell at a pike1594 to put, etc., under the spear1600 knocka1626 outcry1676 to cry out1701 cant1720 to knock down1765 auctioneer1785 auction1884 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. ii. xvii. 55 The rest of the inhabitants were sold at the speare in ouvert market like slaves. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxiii. xxxii. 496 Their fields he would lay wast; sell their servants in port sale at the speare. 1611 B. Jonson Catiline ii. sig. E2 When you see..Their Houses, and fine Gardens giuen away, And all their goods, vnder the Speare, at out-cry. View more context for this quotation 1689 J. Evelyn Let. 12 Aug. in Diary & Corr. (1859) III. 309 The noblest..library, that ever passed under the spear. 1710 D. Manley Mem. Europe II. 105 They persuaded him to put all the Furniture of the House immediately under the Spear. < as lemmas |
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