英语词汇“to strike in the boots”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

> as lemmas

to strike (a prisoner) in the boots

c. trans. to strike (a prisoner) in the boots: to crush the limbs by driving wedges between them and the iron boots as a form of torture (cf. boot n.³ 3). Obsolete exc. Historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > torture > [verb (transitive)] > with the boot

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a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 583 When any are to be struck in the boots, it is done in the presence of the Council.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 291 They..directed the magistrates of Edinburgh to strike the prisoner in the boots.

extracted from strikev.

as lemmas

单词	to strike in the boots
释义	> as lemmas to strike (a prisoner) in the boots c. trans. to strike (a prisoner) in the boots: to crush the limbs by driving wedges between them and the iron boots as a form of torture (cf. boot n.³ 3). Obsolete exc. Historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > [verb (transitive)] > with the boot boot1580 strikea1715 a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 583 When any are to be struck in the boots, it is done in the presence of the Council. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 291 They..directed the magistrates of Edinburgh to strike the prisoner in the boots. extracted from strikev. < as lemmas
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