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单词 walnut-shell
释义 ˈwalnut-shell
1. The hard shell enclosing the seed of the walnut; also, either of the boat-shaped halves of this.
[c1384: see walsh-nut.]1523–34Fitzherb. Husb. §93 There wyll ryse pymples as moche as halfe a walnutshell.1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iv. iii. 66 Heere is the cap your Worship did bespeake... Why 'tis a cockle or a walnut-shell.1647Stapylton Juvenal 30 Spiders..at this day are worne in baggs or walnut-shells against a tertian ague.1842Dickens Amer. Notes ii, In the gale of last night the life⁓boat had been crushed by one blow of the sea like a walnut-shell.1885Sir W. Harcourt in S. Gwynn Life Dilke (1917) II. 187, I therefore spoke like a cat in walnut shells.
b. Applied to the outer husk of the walnut.
1552Huloet, Walnut shele, gulioca.1769Ann. Reg. 128 They were a gang of gypsies..rubbing or dyeing a fine young girl, about seventeen, with walnut-shell.
c. In phrases implying extreme calmness of the sea. (Cf. 2.)
1791Smeaton Edystone L. §6 The sea breaks upon them [sc. the Edystone rocks] in a frightful manner..when, figuratively speaking, you might go to sea in a Walnut-shell.
2. transf. Applied to a boat, as a hyperbolical expression for extreme lightness and fragility. ( In the 17th c. app. used as the actual name of some fragile kind of boat.)
1614T. Gentleman Eng. Way to Wealth 27 The Fleet of Hollanders..that go in the Swoard-pinks,..Walnut-shels, and great and small Yeuers, 100. and 200. Saile at one time together.1836E. Howard R. Reefer xxxiv, Our little walnut-shell got on the top of one [wave].1903E. Childers Riddle of Sands xii. 125 Davies nursed our walnut-shell tenderly over their crests.
3. slang. A very light carriage.
1810Sporting Mag. XXXVI. 232 Drawing a walnut-shell over a level road.
4. attrib.
1460–70Bk. Quinte Essence 20 Of þis watir ȝeue to þe pacient, morowe and euen, a walnot-schelle ful at oonys.1793–4[Aikin & Mrs. Barbauld] Even. at Home (1805) II. 36 The pond where I used to sail my walnut-shell boats.
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