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单词 ash-plant
释义 ash-plant
[ash n.1]
A sapling of the ash tree, used as a walking-stick, whip, goad, etc.
1850‘H. Hieover’ Pract. Horsemanship 180 Sit tight, and lay your ash plant well into his ears.1852Mundy Our Antipodes III. i. 26 He..trudges away..supported by his son on one hand and an ash-plant in the other.1918P. MacGill Glenmornan vi. 140 He hit a bullock near him with his ash-plant.1935S. Spender Destructive Element 82 Stephen..is only recognizable at all by being made inseparable from his ashplant.
Hence as v., to flog with an ash-plant (cf. ash v.1).
1923G. B. Shaw Doctors' Delusions (1932) 346 Nothing will persuade me that any boy..really likes being kicked and ashplanted into doing the drudgery of a professional footballer.
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