| 单词 | wrist of the foot |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswrist of the foot b. The ankle; the instep. Usually wrist of the foot. Now dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > ankle > [noun] ankleeOE rascettea1400 wrist?1515 pastern1555 ankle joint1636 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > foot > [noun] > instep wrist?1515 instep1530 ?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. A.vv Frewyll. But can they go no more. Imagy. O no man the wrest is twyste so sore. ?c1547 Procession Edward VI in Leland's De Rebus Brit. Collectanea (1770) IV. 321 He..tyed himselfe..a little beneath the Wrist of the Foot. 1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. ii. f. 21v Thys vnguent must be applyed vppon..the wreste of the handes, the wreste of the foote [etc.]. 1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1620) II. 169 About the Wrists of her Legs..she wore two..Bracelets. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 1004 The Tarsus or wrest of the Foot. 1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. xxv. 152 The bone of the Foots wrist. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Reist, the instep. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Wrist-o'-the-foot, the ankle. < as lemmas |
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