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单词 cat-o-nine-tails
释义

cat-o'-nine-tailsn.

Forms: Also 1700s catanine-tails, cat-and-nine-tails, 1700s–1800s cat-of-nine-tails, (1800s cat with nine tails).
Etymology: see cat n.1 8: probably the name was originally one of grim humour, in reference to its ‘scratching’ the back.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: cat-o'-ˈnine-tails.
1. A whip with nine knotted lashes; till 1881 an authorized instrument of punishment in the British navy and army.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whip or scourge > cat-o'-nine-tails
cat-o'-nine-tails1695
cat1788
bone-polisher1803
thieves' cat1867
martinet1881
bush1895
1695 W. Congreve Love for Love iii. i. 44 If you shou'd give such Language at Sea, you'd have a Cat o' Nine-tails laid cross your Shoulders.
1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. 241 He hung up the Cata-nine-tails.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxvii. 249 To whip him up with a cat and nine tails.
1763 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 90/2 The plaintiff received 300 lashes with a cat o' nine tails.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. xii. 316 You would joyfully submit to the cat-and-nine-tails, by way of a flapper to your dormant excitability.
1866 R. Chambers Ess. 1st Ser. 97 The disgusting operation of flaying a man alive with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
1879 Daily News 14 Aug. 5/2 A fac-simile of a cat-o'-nine-tails..was exhibited.
figurative.a1726 J. Vanbrugh False Friend Prol. (T.) You awful cat-o'-nine-tails to the stage.attributive.1834 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) III. 99 What is your cat-of-nine-tails man, in a battle or a storm?
2. A bulrush. (U.S.).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > bulrush or club-rush
bulrushc1440
holrushc1440
glagol1480
cat's tail1548
reedmace1548
Typha1548
sun's brow1567
marsh beetle1578
marsh pestle1578
mat-rush1578
pole rush1578
water torch1578
water cat's-tail1597
ditch-down1611
doda1661
club-rush1677
deer-hair1777
club-grass1787
draw-ling1795
raupo1823
tule1837
boulder1847
blackheads1850
cat-o'-nine-tails1858
flax-tail1861
bull-sedge1879
mace reed1901
totora1936
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table in Atlantic Monthly Oct. 621/2 It swayed back and forward like a cat-o'nine-tails (bulrush) with a bobolink on it.
1883 Harper's Mag. Dec. 100/1 A mossy bank with overhanging ferns and cat-o'-nine-tails.

Derivatives

cat-o'-nine-tail v. (humorous).
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > with cat-o'-nine-tails
cat-o'-nine-tail1796
cat1865
1796 R. Southey in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1849) I. 272 Must man be cat-a-ninetailed by care, until he shields himself in a shroud?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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