英语词汇“pitch-brand”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	pitch-brand
释义	ˈpitch-brand [f. pitch n.¹ + brand n.] A brand or mark of ownership made with pitch upon a sheep, etc.; also fig., a distinctive evil mark or characteristic. So pitch-branded a. 1631J. Burges Answ. Rejoined, Lawfulness of Kneeling 21 Hee that beside a pitch-brande, doth raddle the heads of his fat sheepe.a1656Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 234 David makes this the pitch-brand (as it were) of wicked wretches, ‘they call not upon God’.1805J. Luccock Nat. Wool 318 Instead of the common pitch-brand a permanent mark is fixed upon the ear of the sheep.1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. Wks. (Grosart) II. 317 Notable men in their kinde, but pitch-branded with notorious dissimulation.
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