| 单词 | to take up for hawks' meat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take up for hawks' meat (b) to take up for hawks' meat: to ruin, destroy (a person). Hence in similar phrases. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > destroyed forwroughta1325 lorna1400 destroyedc1440 perishedc1440 shentc1440 defeatc1540 spiltc1540 dissolved?1541 interempt1561 baned1568 mischievedc1570 defeated1578 ruined1585 downcast1592 gone1598 collapsed1610 to take up for hawks' meat1612 naughta1616 blasted1747 wreckeda1821 butchered1839 fucked-up1863 kaput1895 piled-up1906 shambled1940 1612 T. Dekker O per se O sig. O Seruing-men..who like Free-booters are so hungry of flesh, that a Doxie (if shee haue a smug face) cannot peepe out, but shee is taken vp for Hawkes-meate. 1615 E. Hoby Curry-combe i. 67 Were old Bishop Longland his Confessor now aliue, he would take vp Iabal for Hawks-meate. 1632 R. Brome Northern Lasse i. iv. sig. A4 Slid Ile marry out o' the way; tis time I thinke: I shall bee tane vp for whores meat else. ?c1640 W. Rowley et al. Witch of Edmonton (1658) iii. 37 There's my Rival taken up for Hang-man's meat. 1697 T. Oates Εἰκων Βασιλικη IV. 188 They have applied to wrong Persons, and made use of wrong Methods; by which means they are taken up for Hawks meat, and are hanged. < as lemmas |
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