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单词 to short by the head or knees
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to short (a person) by the head or knees
c. To reduce the length of (a material object, a journey); to cut short. to short (a person) by the head or knees: to decapitate or cut off the legs (cf. short adj. 2, shorten v. 1d).
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the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by dismemberment
to-lima1225
to-limekenc1275
to short (a person) by the head or knees1398
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > shortness > make short(er) [verb (transitive)]
short1398
shorten1530
stump1596
snub1615
to take up1624
the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by beheading
to lash offc1330
whipc1380
off-whipa1400
to shorten by the head1530
firkc1540
to short (a person) by the head or knees1548
neckc1712
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) v. xxiv Þe tunge is so schorted þat vnneþe it is idrawe oute or neuer.
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iii. 3017 With a stroke he rofe his nose a-two, And shortid it by þe haluendel.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur v. viii. 173 He shorted hym and smote of bothe his legges by the knees.
c1503 Nutbrown Maid in R. Arnold Chron. f. lxxviv To short my here, a bowe to bere.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cclxxxv. 426 Howbeit, their way was shorted, for..the frenchmen and they met togyder sodenly.
1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 7v With shorting and pikynge your bowes..[you] can neuer haue done vntyll they be starke nought.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cxcj His body was shorted, by the length of his hed.
figurative.a1563 J. Bale King Johan (1969) i. 227 I se now they be at to mych lyberte. We wyll short ther hornys.
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