单词 | to seek creeks |
释义 | > as lemmasto 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun] > a nook, corner haleeOE 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 chare12.. danger1393 throata1522 creek1573 pass1712 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 Crykes ‘Creeks 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. < as lemmas |
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