| 单词 | to pill and poll |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto pill and poll 10. transitive. to pill and poll (also to poll and pill): to strip (a person, place, or institution) bare by robbery or pillage; to plunder; to ruin by depredation or extortion. Also occasionally intransitive. Now rare (archaic or historical in later use).The literal sense is ‘to remove the skin and hair of’; cf. poll v. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > make poor or impoverish [verb (transitive)] > by depredations or extortions to poll and pill1528 to peel and poll1641 to pick feathers off (a person)1677 the mind > possession > taking > extortion > practise extortion on [verb (transitive)] ransom?a1425 to poll and pill1528 exact1534 bloodsuck?1541 extort1561 rack1576 flay1584 shave1606 wire-draw1616 punisha1626 sponge1631 squeeze1639 screwa1643 to screw up1655 bleed1680 torture1687 to screw down1725 to shake down1872 to squeeze (someone) until the pips squeak1918 to bleed white1935 rent1956 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > commit depredation [verb (intransitive)] reaveOE preyc1325 pillc1390 spoilc1400 spreathc1425 rive1489 poinda1500 to rug and reavea1500 to pill and poll1528 pilfer1548 fleece1575 plunder1642 spulyie1835 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > despoil or prey upon [verb (transitive)] reaveOE stripa1225 pill?c1225 robc1225 peela1250 despoil1297 raimc1300 spoilc1330 spoila1340 to pull a finch (also pigeon, plover, etc.)c1387 despoil1393 preya1400 spoila1400 spulyiea1400 unspoila1400 riflec1400 poll1490 to pill and poll1528 to poll and pill1528 exspoila1530 pilyie1539 devour?1542 plume1571 rive1572 bepill1574 fleece1575 to prey over1576 pread1577 disvaledge1598 despoliate1607 to make spoil of1613 expilate1624 to peel and poll1641 depredate1651 violatea1657 disvalise1672 to pick feathers off (a person)1677 to make stroy of1682 spoliate1699 pilfer1714 snabble1725 rump1815 vampire1832 sweat1847 ploat1855 vampirize1888 1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man Prol. f. xxijv They have no soch auctorite of God so to pylle and polle as they doo. 1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Biv Thus pore men are pold and pyld to the bare. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. E5v No man ought to poole and pill his brother. a1652 R. Brome City Wit iv. i. sig. E3, in Five New Playes (1653) Churches poule the People, Princes pill the Church. 1675 J. Crowne Countrey Wit ii. 25 'Tis a rare thing to be an absolute Prince, and have rich Subjects; Oh how one may Pill 'em and Poll 'em. 1788 J. Adams Def. Constit. Govt. U.S.A. III. 358 A grand catch-pole, to pill, poll, and geld the purses of the people. 1844 R. Browning Colombe's Birthday in Bells & Pomegranates No. VI i. 4/2 We tax and tithe them, pill and poll, They wince and fret enough, but pay they must. 1860 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. I. 15 They..have full permission to ‘pill and poll.’ 1935 E. R. Eddison Mistress xix. 389 Them that followed and obeyed Prince Ercles, when he would poll pill and shave the Queen's subjects in these parts..we have bloodily overthrown. 1948 H. Maynard Smith Henry VIII & Reformation ii. iv. 363 He had found the Protestant nobles only out to ‘pill and poll’ the Church. < as lemmas |
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