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单词 to seek creeks
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to seek creeks
a. A narrow or winding passage penetrating the interior of any place and passing out of sight; an out-of-the-way corner. to seek creeks: to seek a hiding place. Obsolete or dialect.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun] > a nook, corner
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hirnec897
halkea1300
cornerc1384
nookc1450
hele?1527
creek1573
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, passage, or means of access to a place > [noun] > narrow passage or narrow part of passage
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danger1393
throata1522
creek1573
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push-through1888
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 45v Tom Pyeper, hath houen and puffed vp cheekes, if cheese be so houen, make Cis to seeke creekes.
1582 T. Watson Passionate Cent. of Loue xcv, in Poems (1870) 131 A Labyrinth is a place made full of turnings and creekes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. ii. 38 One that countermands The passages of allies, creekes, and narrow lands. View more context for this quotation
1629 G. Chapman tr. Juvenal Fifth Satyre in Iustification Nero 12 Is no Creeke void?
1681 C. Cotton Wonders of Peake 52 The Cave..stretching itself..As if (past these blind Creeks) we now were come into the..Mountains Womb.
1753 T. Gray Long Story in Six Poems 18 Each hole and cupboard they explore, Each creek and cranny of his chamber.
1808–25 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at CrykesCreeks and corners’ is still a common phrase.
1878 Mrs. H. Wood Pomeroy Abbey (ed. 3) 112 We..looked in every crick and corner for it.
1883 G. Allen Colin Clout's Cal. 65 To fill up all the cricks and corners between other plants.
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