英语词汇“to thwite a mill-post to a pudding-prick”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. transitive. To cut down, whittle, pare, shave; to shape by paring; to cut away. Also figurative. Phrase, to thwite a mill-post (etc.) to a pudding-prick.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > cut [verb (transitive)] > cut off or away (with an instrument)

thwitea900

telwec1440

mowc1450

top1509

summer top1548

whittle1552

white1567

shave1605

a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iii. xiv. [xvii.] 204 ge[a] eac swylce of þære ilcan styðe sponas þweoton & sceafþan nomon [v.r. ðæt geþwit naman].

c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 292 genim þone neowran wyrttruman delf up, þwit nigon sponas on ða winstran hand.

?a1366 Romaunt Rose 933 That other bowe..was peynted wel and thwyten [MS. twythen, Thynne thwitten].

c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame iii. 848 Somme [twigs] weren white Whiche as men to these cages thwite [v.rr. thwyte, twhyte] Or maken of these panyers.

c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxiij^v/2 The ende of the graff that was vpward next the firmament must be thweten lyke the neder of a comon graffe.

1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii, in Wks. 236/2 Here was a gret post wel thwyted to a pudding pricke.

1574 Brieff Disc. Troubles Franckford p. clvii It nippeth and thwitethe awaie a great deale off that liberalitie, whiche might come to vs.

1658 P. Osborne Pract. Exchequer Court 112 The Cutter of the Tallyes..provideth a..hasell for the Tallies..and doth somewhat thwite every stick thereof into four square sides.

1674 J. Ray N. Country Words To Thwite, to whittle, cut, make white by cutting.

1897 Shetland News 24 July (E.D.D.) A placid roadman ‘tweetin’ the grass in the ditches with a scythe.

单词	to thwite a mill-post to a pudding-prick
释义	> as lemmas to thwite a mill-post (etc.) to a pudding-prick a. transitive. To cut down, whittle, pare, shave; to shape by paring; to cut away. Also figurative. Phrase, to thwite a mill-post (etc.) to a pudding-prick. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > cut [verb (transitive)] > cut off or away (with an instrument) thwitea900 telwec1440 mowc1450 top1509 summer top1548 whittle1552 white1567 shave1605 a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iii. xiv. [xvii.] 204 ge[a] eac swylce of þære ilcan styðe sponas þweoton & sceafþan nomon [v.r. ðæt geþwit naman]. c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 292 genim þone neowran wyrttruman delf up, þwit nigon sponas on ða winstran hand. ?a1366 Romaunt Rose 933 That other bowe..was peynted wel and thwyten [MS. twythen, Thynne thwitten]. c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame iii. 848 Somme [twigs] weren white Whiche as men to these cages thwite [v.rr. thwyte, twhyte] Or maken of these panyers. c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxiij^v/2 The ende of the graff that was vpward next the firmament must be thweten lyke the neder of a comon graffe. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii, in Wks. 236/2 Here was a gret post wel thwyted to a pudding pricke. 1574 Brieff Disc. Troubles Franckford p. clvii It nippeth and thwitethe awaie a great deale off that liberalitie, whiche might come to vs. 1658 P. Osborne Pract. Exchequer Court 112 The Cutter of the Tallyes..provideth a..hasell for the Tallies..and doth somewhat thwite every stick thereof into four square sides. 1674 J. Ray N. Country Words To Thwite, to whittle, cut, make white by cutting. 1897 Shetland News 24 July (E.D.D.) A placid roadman ‘tweetin’ the grass in the ditches with a scythe. extracted from thwitev. < as lemmas
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