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. |