| 单词 | whip- or whipping-top |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhip- or whipping-top a. A toy of various shapes (cylindrical, obconic, etc.), but always of circular section, with a point on which it is made to spin, usually by the sudden pulling of a string wound round it; the common whip- or whipping-top is kept spinning by lashing it with a whip.Other tops, as the peg-top, are spun in the same way, but not whipped; some are spun by the action of a spring. humming-top, a hollow top, usually of metal, with perforations, which makes a humming noise in spinning. parish top, town top, a large top kept for public use, which two players or parties whipped in opposite directions. See also quot. 1911. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > top > [noun] top13.. spilquernc1375 prill1440 spilcockc1440 whirligigc1440 nun1585 nun-gig1615 Roaring Meg1632 totum1706 teetotum1720 spinner1799 spinning-top1821 jenny-spinner1824 diabolo1905 dreidel1916 society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > top > [noun] > humming-top top13.. castle-topa1774 humming-top1819 c1060 Apollonius of Tyre (Thorpe) 13 Mid gelæredre handa he swang þone top mid swa micelre swiftnesse, þæt þam cynge wæs geþuht swilce he of ylde to iuguðe gewænd wære.] 13.. K. Alis. 1756 Þe Top þat is rounde aboute, Signefieþ also saunz doute, Þat þe werlde þat þe rounde is, Shal be myne also I wys. c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. (Cambr.) I. 39 En la rue iuez au toup [All Souls MS. a toop]; Gloss. All Souls [In the] strete plaies þe toop, Camb. MS. atte toppe, B.M. Arundel a top of tre. 13.. K. Alis. (Bodl.) 1727 Þere fore, ich habbe þee ysent, A top and scourge to present. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) iii. xvii. d iiij b/1 All þe lynes pt ben drawe fro all þe partyes of þe thynge þt is seen, make aperaunce, shapen as a toppe, and the poynt therof is in þe black of the eye, and the brode ende in þe thynge þt is seen, as in this fygure & shappe. c1425 St. Christina xxiv, in Anglia VIII. 128/36 Whirlynge about as a scoprelle or a toppe Þat childer pleye with. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 496/2 Top, of chylderys pley, trochus. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1624 Soche soteltie þai soght to solas hom with; The tables, the top, tregetre also. 1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Biiijv The stoole ball, top, or camping ball If suche one should assaye. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions ix. 54 Fensing, and scourging the Top. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. iii. 40 A Coward and a Coystrill that will not drinke to my Neece. till his braines turne o'th toe, like a parish top . View more context for this quotation 1616–61 B. Holyday tr. Persius Satires (1673) iii. 311 For the scourgstick I did strive, That none his top with greater art might drive. 1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer Pref. 209 Are no more worthy of my serious hopes, Then Ratles, Pot-guns, or the Schoole-boyes Tops. 1640 J. Fletcher & J. Shirley Night-walker i. sig. C1v He..dances like a Towne top: and reeles and hobbles. 1697 R. Pierce Bath Mem. i. x. 235 To play at Trap, and Top and Scourge, with the Boys. 1838–43 C. Knight Pict. Ed. Wks. Shakspere. Twelfth Night i. iii. (note) The town-top and the parish-top were one and the same. The custom..existed in the time of Elizabeth, and probably long before, of a large top being provided for the amusement of the peasants in frosty weather. 1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) iii, in Writings I. 18 Battledores, humming-tops. 1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 457 The motion of our globe has often been compared..to that of a top. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 47/2 Other kinds of tops are made as supports for coloured disks which on revolving show a kaleidoscopic variation of patterns. The top is also used in certain games of chance, when it is generally known as a ‘teetotum’. < as lemmas |
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