| 释义 |
heave shoulder
In the Levitical law: The shoulder of an animal ‘heaved’ or elevated in sacrifice (cf. heave-offering). Also transf. and fig.
1530Tindale Lev. vii. 34 The wauebrest and the heue⁓shulder I haue taken of the childern of Israel..and haue geuen it vnto Aaron the prest and vnto his sonnes; to be a dutie for euer of the children of Israel. 1647Husbandm. Plea agst. Tithes 38 Then the custome is (in some Parishes) for the Parson to have a tenth joynt, a heave shoulder, or a shake breast. a1659Bp. Brownrig Serm. (1674) I. xxi. 278 ‘God’, said Gregory, ‘requires..the heave-shoulder and arm of Obedience’. |