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murdering piece Obs.
[See piece n. 11.]
1. = murderer 2.
1602Shakes. Ham. iv. v. 95 O my deere Gertrude, this, Like to a murdering Peece in many places, Giues me superfluous death. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 851 And seeing them that were gathered together into the market place..to fight as men altogether desperat, he caused certain murthering pieces to be bent upon them. 1655E. Terry Voy. E. India 163 Mann'd she was but with ten men, and had only one small murdering-peece within her.
fig.1617Middleton & Rowley Fair Quarrel ii. i, There is not such another murdering-piece In all the stock of calumny.
¶2. Used by Burke for: A picture of carnage. Cf. battle-piece: see piece n. 17 b.
1797Burke Regic. Peace iii. Wks. VIII. 309 A far more cruel ‘murdering piece’ than had ever entered into the imagination of painter or poet. |