| 单词 | turnagain lane |
| 释义 | > as lemmasturn-again lane a. A narrow way between hedges or banks; a narrow road or street between houses or walls; a bye-way. blind lane, †turn-again lane: a cul-de-sac (see also quot. 1725). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > lane > [noun] lane971 twitchenOE twitchelc1196 loaning1324 loan1362 stowc1440 strait1622 laning1638 slip1739 drong1787 loke1787 twittena1798 boreen1841 hutung1922 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > cul-de-sac > [noun] blind lanec1386 turn-again lane1531 blind alley1582 close1723 turn-again alley1754 loke1787 cul-de-sac1800 no-thoroughfare1809 dead-ender1870 impasse1882 blind lead1885 no through road1933 971 Blickl. Hom. 237 Forþon þe..þinne lichoman geond þisse ceastre lanan hie tostenceað. c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 105 In the suburbes of a toun..Lurkynge in hernes and in lanes blynde. a1400 Sir Beues (A.) 4439 Þe cri aros be ech a side Boþe of lane and of strete. 1480 W. Worcester in J. Nasmith Itineraria (1778) 177 A laane goyng yn the south syde of Seynt Stevyn chyrch. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. (1482) ccxlii. 278 Euery strete and lane in london and in the subarbes. 1511 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 338 Clensyng of the lanys at the comyng in off the towne. 1531 W. Tyndale Expos. 1 John Prol., in Wks. (1573) 388/1 It is becomme a turnagaine lane vnto them, which they can not goe thorough. 1611 Bible (King James) Luke xiv. 21 Goe..into the streetes and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poore. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. v. 13 Lo. Where was this Lane? Post. Close by the battell, ditch'd, & wall'd with turph. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 105 The Hedges and Lanes are chiefly set with two sorts of Bushes. 1725 New Canting Dict. Blind Lane, a Lane fit to run down to avoid Pursuers, after a Villainy committed. 1794 Act Inclos. S. Kelsey 12 Any of the Roads or Ways within the Manor..which shall be made into Lanes, or fenced on both Sides. 1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 148 Their way..leading through cross country lanes. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Miller's Daughter xvii, in Poems (new ed.) 41 The lanes were white with May. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) vii. 66 Their walk..lay through shady lanes. turn-again lane turn-again lane n. Obsolete = turn-again alley n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > cul-de-sac > [noun] blind lanec1386 turn-again lane1531 blind alley1582 close1723 turn-again alley1754 loke1787 cul-de-sac1800 no-thoroughfare1809 dead-ender1870 impasse1882 blind lead1885 no through road1933 1531 Tyndale Expos. 1 John (1537) Prol. 5 It is become a turne-agayne lane unto them, which they can not go thorow. 1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον v. 256 A turne-againe-lane, that had no passage through. 1807 Antiq. Rep. I. 346 It was Friar Richard's ill fate to take into a turn-again lane, that had no passage through. < as lemmas |
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