| 单词 | cheval-de-frise |
| 释义 | > as lemmascheval-de-frise Used in combination (as in cheval-de-frise, cheval-glass), and in some French phrases, as à cheval ‘on horseback’, ‘with one foot on each side’; in military phraseology ‘in command of two roads or lines of communication’; also transferred; spec. in gambling, applied to a stake risked equally on two chances. (Formerly somewhat naturalized as chival n.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun] horsec825 blonkOE brockc1000 mareOE stota1100 caplec1290 foala1300 rouncyc1300 scot1319 caballc1450 jade1553 chival1567 prancer1567 ball1570 pranker1591 roussin1602 wormly1606 cheval1609 sonipes1639 neigher1649 quadruped1660 keffel1699 prad1703 jig1706 hoss1815 cayuse1841 yarraman1848 quad1854 plug1860 bronco1869 gee-gee1869 quadrupedant1870 rabbit1882 gee1887 neddy1887 nanto1889 prod1891 goat1894 skin1918 bang-tail1921 horsy1923 steed- society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > stake > type of stake double or quit(sa1586 à cheval1609 chicken stake1785 pot1823 the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > alongside [phrase] > on one side > on either side (of a border, country, etc.) à cheval1832 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > stake > specific type à cheval1881 the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adverb] > with one foot on either side à cheval1931 the world > space > relative position > posture > position of specific body parts > [adverb] > feet spen-footc1400 à cheval1931 1609–38 T. Heywood Rape Lucrece in Wks. (1874) V. 209 Then mount Chevall Brutus this night take you the charge of the army. 1832 C. MacFarlane Lives Banditti I. i. 22 It is so easy for the criminals to evade pursuit, by constantly keeping themselves (to use a military phrase) à cheval on the line of demarcation of the two countries, and when pursuit is hot in the one, by retreating into the other. 187. Times (O.) The Western Powers will assuredly never permit Russia to place herself à cheval between the Ottoman Empire and Persia. 1881 T. Hardy Laodicean II. iv. iv. 258 Leaving off backing numbers en plein, he laid his venture upon two columns à cheval. 1919 T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 293 If we pay half the Hejaz expenses direct to Mecca, and another share direct to the Government of Syria, we seem reasonably à cheval upon all possible contingencies. 1931 Hartmann Diary 29 Aug. in P. Bauer Kanchenjunga (1955) iii. v. 150 I was able to proceed along the narrow edge à cheval. 1951 E. Coxhead One Green Bottle vi. 161 Alec..had climbed out on to the dizzy crest of the ridge... The thin part in the middle was passed by the daughter à cheval. < as lemmas |
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