英语词汇“tolly”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	tolly
释义	tolly School slang. Now arch. or Hist.\|ˈtɒlɪ\| [app. f. tallow n.] A (tallow) candle. 1890Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang. II. 360/2 Tolly (public schools), a candle.1905Daily News 2 Aug. 4 Who does not recognise a living experience in Hugh working after prohibited hours for a scholarship, caught by the master and ‘jawed for having a tolly alight’.1924E. Marsh tr. La Fontaine's Fables 77 The luckless tolly..Ended as a pool of grease. Also as v. intr. (Harrow), to work by candle-light after the lights have been extinguished; to ‘burn the midnight oil’; usu. with up. 1890Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang. II. 360/2 Tolly up, to (Harrow School), to keep a candle alight after the gas has been turned off.1894Wilkins & Vivian Green Bay Tree I. 73 The process known as ‘tollying up’, or working by candle-light after the legal hours.
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