| 单词 | virginia fence |
| 释义 | > as lemmasVirginia fence Virginia fence n. a rail fence made in a zig-zag manner; to make a Virginia fence (see quot. 1861). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > unsteadily wiggle?c1225 walter1399 falterc1400 stammerc1400 dotterc1475 stavera1500 stumblea1500 reel1529 scamblec1571 halper1596 totter1602 folder1607 wamble1611 to make a Virginia fence1671 wandle1686 fribble1709 rock1718 stoit1719 stoiter1724 swagger1724 doddle1761 stotter1781 toit1786 doiter1793 stot1801 dodder1819 twaddle1823 teeter1844 shoggle1884 welter1884 warple1887 whemmel1895 the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hedge or fence > a fence > zig-zag fence Virginia fence1671 worm-fence1724 snake-fence1805 1671 Portsmouth (Rhode Island) Rec. 26 Apr. For a ffence called a Virginia ffence, It is ordered that it shall be fower foot and a halfe high, stakt with stakes halfe a foot above the fence. 1737 B. Franklin Drinkers Dict. in Pennsylvania Gaz. 6–13 Jan. 2/1 He [being drunk] makes Virginia Fence. 1789 T. Anburey Trav. Interior Parts Amer. II. 324 The New Englanders have a saying when a man is in liquor, he is making Virginia fences. 1826 T. Flint Recoll. Last Ten Years 206 The universal fence split rails, laid in a worm trail, or what is known in the North by the name of Virginia fence. 1844 P. H. Gosse in Zoologist 2 708 The fences, which are almost wholly made of rails set up in the zig-zag fashion so general in the north, commonly called a Virginia fence. 1861 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. in Poet. Wks. (1912) Introd., 285 ‘Virginia fence, to make a:’ to walk like a drunken man. < as lemmas |
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