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单词 to serve away
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to serve away
to serve away
Now rare.
1. transitive. To carry or send (a dish, a meal, etc.) from kitchen to table; to present (food or drink) to a person or group as part of a meal. Obsolete.Apparently recorded only in 18th cent. recipe books. Cf. earlier to serve forth 1a at Phrasal verbs.
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the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [verb (intransitive)]
servec1275
sewc1440
pour1539
to wait on the cup, the trencher, the table1552
sewerc1553
wait1568
to wait up1654
to serve away1709
help1805
to wait (the) table1827
to sling hash1860
to be mother1934
the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [verb (transitive)]
servec1275
spenda1375
serve1381
to serve forth1381
ministerc1400
messa1425
sewc1440
to serve ina1450
to serve upc1475
asservec1500
dish1587
appose1593
to usher in1613
send1662
to hand round1692
to serve away1709
hand1851
1709 T. Hall Queen's Royal Cookery 112 When your Sturgeon is ready, put it off, and put your sause over it with Sugar, and so serve it away.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xi. 123 Put in the Meat again..and let it boil; then serve it away.
1788 M. Cole Lady's Compl. Guide 234 Toast the bread brown on both sides..; then cut up some cheese very thin, and lay it..over the bread, and put it in a tin oven before the fire, and it will be presently toasted and browned. Serve it away hot.
2. transitive. To pass (a period, one's life) in prison, or service of some kind. Often in hyperbolic use. rare.
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1936 J. E. Hoover Influence Crime on Amer. Home 5 In the neighboring commonwealth, a man may serve away the best years of his life in atonement.
2018 @SubjectKpop 16 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 1 Aug. 2020) [Responding to the question: You work or still study?] In the Military serving my life away.
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