A heavy blow or stroke, esp. with a weapon. Also: the sound made by such a blow. Occasionally figurative. In later use chiefly literary or archaic…
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| 释义 | the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > striking heavily > a heavy blow (50) smitea1200 A heavy blow or stroke, esp. with a weapon. Also: the sound made by such a blow. Occasionally figurative. In later use chiefly literary or archaic… ponder1339 A weight; spec. one used with a scale or balance. Hence in extended use: anything weighty, esp. a weighty attack or blow. clouta1400 A heavy blow, esp. with the hand; a cuff. Cf. clod, n. 11. Now dialect or colloquial. whopc1440 An act of whopping; a heavy blow or impact; a bump. routa1450 A (heavy) blow or stroke. maul1481 A heavy blow. Obsolete. sousec1500 A heavy blow; a thump. dunta1522 Chiefly Scottish and Irish English (northern). A blow, esp. a heavy or forceful one. In later use also: a sharp push or shove, esp. a nudge or poke… flake1559 ? A heavy blow. lambskin1573 punningly. A heavy blow. Obsolete. (Cf. lambskin, v., lam, v.) lamback1592 a whack, a heavy blow. daud1596 A heavy blow or thump; a thud. Now somewhat rare. baster1600 A person who, or (more often) a thing which, beats or thrashes (cf. baste, v.3); esp. a heavy stick, a cudgel. Also: a hard blow given with such a… mell1658 Scottish. A heavy blow, as with a mallet. Frequently in mell for mell: blow for blow. thumper1682 A thumping or heavy blow. lounder1723 A heavy, swingeing blow. smash1725 dialect or colloquial. A hard or heavy blow. (In earliest quots. figurative.) plumper1756 slang. A heavy blow. Cf. plump, n.3 3. Obsolete. spanker1772 A heavy blow or smack. douser1782 A heavy blow. thud1787 A heavy blow; a thump with the fist. Also figurative a severe affliction, a ‘blow’. Scottish and northern dialect. bash1805 A heavy blow that beats or smashes in a surface (originally Scottish). Now in gen. use, a heavy blow. stave1819 A crushing blow, a heavy stroke. batter1823 A heavy bruising blow. rare. belter1823 British regional and colloquial. A heavy blow or series of blows. Cf. belt, n.4 1. wallop1823 colloquial. A heavy resounding blow; a whack. Also (in Boxing slang) the capacity to deliver such a blow. Also figurative. whacker1823 A heavy blow. dialect. belt1825 colloquial (originally Scottish, Irish English, and U.S.). A heavy blow or stroke. smasher1829 colloquial. A bad or damaging fall; a heavy blow. dingbat1843 Originally and chiefly U.S. A name for: any of various (often somewhat vaguely) specified things; esp. (a) a sharp blow or slap, esp. on the… dinger1845 British colloquial, Scottish, and English regional. A heavy or violent blow; a hard punch. oner1861 slang. spec. A heavy blow. squeaker1877 colloquial. A heavy blow. rare. clod1886 A heavy solid blow. dialect. Cf. clod, v. 5 6. wham1923 A heavy blow; the sound of a heavy blow (or of an explosion, etc.). Also, a resounding success, a ‘knock-out’; an attempt at something (cf. whack, n.… dong1941 Australian and New Zealand colloquial. A heavy blow, a punch. Subcategories:— and dull (6) — and resounding (5) — downward (1) — on a yielding surface (2) |
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