| 单词 | to tend bar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto tend bar b. To have the care and oversight of; to take charge of, look after (a flock, herd, etc.); = attend v. 5. Said also (now dialect and U.S.) of a shop, toll-gate, bridge, etc., and (U.S.) in to tend bar (cf. bartender n.). Also absol. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > have charge of redeOE steer13.. agyea1450 rulea1500 tend?1521 to have, take, give (the) charge of1611 work1841 the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > care for, protect, or have charge of [verb (transitive)] hold971 yemeOE biwitc1000 keepa1325 wait1362 tentc1400 attendc1420 to take guard1426 tend?1521 to have the care of1579 to have, take, give (the) charge of1611 mind1640 to have, take in charge1665 tutor1682 attend1796 shepherda1822 mother1851 the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > care or protect [verb (intransitive)] yemeOE to do for ——?a1300 tend1809 ?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. Aivv Nedes must a shepherd, bestowe his hole labour In tendyng his flockes. 1602 S. Rowlands Tis Merrie 16 My Husband's forth, our Shoppe must needes be tended. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) ii. v. 31 So many Houres, must I tend my Flocke. View more context for this quotation 1712 A. Pope tr. Ovid Sapho to Phaon in tr. Ovid Epist. (ed. 8) 12 Bid Endymion nightly tend his Sheep. 1809 A. Putnam in Danvers Hist. Soc. Coll. (1918) VI. 15 My brother has hired Asa Fletcher a young fellow of my age, who has been tending for Mr. Marcy. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iv. i. 336 Gurth could only tend pigs. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xii. 359 The horses had been ill fed and ill tended among the Grampians. 1870 ‘M. Twain’ in Galaxy Nov. 726/2 Tending bar, and reporting for the newspapers. 1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms (at cited word) Shops, stores, and businesses of every description are in America tended and not kept. 1959 Washington Post 9 Dec. a7/3 Nixon is staying in Washington to help tend the store while the President is away on his 3-week tour. 1978 Detroit Free Press 2 Apr. 4 c/3 In 1976, he tended bar and sold swimming pools and encyclopedias. < as lemmas |
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