单词 | vole |
释义 | volen.1 a. The winning of all the tricks in certain card games, as écarté, quadrille, or ombre. Frequently to win the vole. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > actions or tactics > winning or losing points or tricks trick1607 rub1613 slam1660 vole1680 sans prendre1728 grand slam1800 single1850 1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper iv. i. 46 Pug has sent me to you..to bring you down to Cards again;..she'll never forgive you the last Vol you won. 1713 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 7 Mar. (1948) II. 634 I..played at Ombre..for 3 hours, there were 3 Voles against me,..but [I] came off for 3s-6d. 1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband v. iii. 93 Unless..sometimes winning a great Stake; laying down a Vole, sans prendre may come up, to the profitable Pleasure you were speaking of. 1741 E. Montagu Let. 15 Jan. (1809) II. 111 Many there would have gone twice as far to have saved a vole at quadrille. 1778 Camp Guide 12 To win a great—battle—I think from my soul, Is rather more dubious, than Quadrille the vole. 1810 G. Crabbe Borough xvi. 221 Cards answer'd to her call..‘A vole! a vole!’ she cried, ‘'tis fairly won.’ 1861 Macmillan's Mag. Dec. 131 Unless the winners should choose to undertake to make all the ten tricks [in Quadrille], which is called the vole. 1894 W. H. Wilkins & H. Vivian Green Bay Tree I. 21 ‘A gentle flutter at ecarté.’ ‘In which you began with King and vol each game, I wager.’ b. to go the vole, to run every risk in the hope of great gain; to try all shifts. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > chance [verb (intransitive)] > run a risk or take one's chance to take one's chancec1325 to take penancec1400 to throw at allc1400 to buy a pig (in Scotl. a cat) in a poke1546 to throw the helve after the hatchet1546 to set (up) one's rest1579 to give the adventure1607 to make a shaft or a bolt of ita1616 to run a fortune1627 to run for luck1799 to go the vole1816 chance1863 to chance one's arm1889 to take a chance or chances1902 gamble1919 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > face danger [verb (intransitive)] > risk oneself > risk everything to throw at allc1400 to send the axe after the helvea1450 to throw the helve after the hatchet1546 to go the vole1816 to go for broke1935 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. iv. 86 Who is he!—why, he has gone the vole—has been soldier, ballad-singer, travelling tinker, and is now a beggar. 1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 6 Nov. (1941) 129 He thinks Cadell's account must turn up trumps, and is for going the vole. 1895 Daily News 27 May 8/3 In the old phrase he ‘went the vole,’ he would be colossal, or a blank failure. Derivatives vole v. rare (intransitive) to win the vole. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > play at cards [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics > win points or tricks rub1600 to sweep the board1680 vole1733 slam1833 make1879 sweat1907 1733 A. Pope Impertinent 11 Shortly no Lad shall chuck, or Lady vole, But some excising Courtier will have Toll. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2021). volen.2 One or other of various rat- or mouse-like quadrupeds, esp. the short-tailed field-mouse, Microtus (formerly Arvicola) agrestis; the water-rat, M. amphibius; and the red or bank vole, Evotomys glareolus; also, the genus or genera to which these belong. Also †vole-mouse. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Microtidae > genus Clethrionomys (vole) vole1805 bank vole1837 red-backed mouse1865 red-backed vole1880 wold-mouse1892 Orkney vole1904 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Microtidae > genus Arvicola > arvicola amphibius (water-vole) water mousea1398 water rat1481 craber1655 water dog1765 water mole1770 vole1805 water vole1828 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Microtidae > genus Microtus > microtus agrestis (field vole) meadow rat1781 meadow mouse1801 vole1805 field vole1828 campagnol1835 meadow vole1840 1805 G. Barry Hist. Orkney iii. i. 314 The Short-tailed Field Mouse,..which with us has the name of the vole mouse. 1828 J. Fleming Hist. Brit. Animals 23 Arvicola. Vole.—No subsidiary incisors. Roots of the grinders simple... Tail round and hairy. 1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 114 The Voles..have three grinders above and below. 1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 114 The Musk~quash,..which is a Vole with semi-palmated hind-feet. c1880 Cassell's Nat. Hist. III. 115 The true Voles..number about fifty known species. Compounds With distinctive premodifiers (see quots. and preceding; also field vole n. at field n.1 Compounds 3, water vole n.). Alsacian vole n. Π 1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 114 The Alsacian Vole..lives under ground like the Mole. bank vole n. Π 1843 Zoologist 1 72 The bank vole or bank mouse. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 278/1 The Bank-Vole (Arvicola glareolus). economic vole n. Π 1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 114 The Economic Vole..inhabits a sort of oven-shaped chamber. meadow vole n. Π 1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 114 Meadow Vole..Size of a Mouse, reddish ash-colour. northern vole n. Π 1896 R. Lydekker Brit. Mammals 308 The northern Vole (Microtus ratticeps), and the Siberian Vole (M. gregalis). snow vole n. Π 1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 633/1 Fauna of the Alps..[includes] the snow-vole (Arvicola nivalis). Derivatives ˈvoledom n. the world of voles. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Microtidae > genus Clethrionomys (vole) > world of voles voledom1892 1892 Chambers's Jrnl. 25 June 407/2 The young mice being greedily gulped down by the black bogies, whose appearance must be the prevailing terror of voledom. 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