| 单词 | cross and pile |
| 释义 | > as lemmascross and pile cross and pile n. (also cross or pile) [French croix et (ou) pile] extracted from crossn.cross and (or) pile 1. The reverse side of a coin. Frequently in cross and (or) pile: ‘heads and (or) tails’, used as a call when tossing a coin, etc.; (hence) a game of chance involving such a call. Cf. cross n. 21. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > a coin minteOE minteOE crossc1330 coinc1386 cross and (or) pilea1393 penny1394 croucha1420 penny1427 piece1472 metal1485 piecec1540 stamp1594 quinyie1596 cross and pilea1625 numm1694 ducat1794 bean1811 dog1811 chinker1834 rock1837 pocket-burner1848 spondulicks1857 scale1872 chip1879 ridge1935 society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > obverse or reverse of coin pilea1393 cross and pile1584 reverse1605 averse1655 ranverse1656 obverse1658 heads1675 tail1684 endorse1688 woman1785 mazard1802 man1828 mick1918 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. 390 (MED) He hath withholde Malebouche, Whos tunge neither pyl ne crouche Mai hyre. c1460 (?c1435) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 667 Of cros nor pyl there is no reclus, Preent nor impressioun in al thy seyntuarye. c1475 Wisdom (Folger) (1969) 858 (MED) Wyth þe crose and þe pyll I xall wrye yt, That þer xall neuer man dyscrey yt þat may me appeyere. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cliv. 185 The frenche kyng made newe money of fyne golde, called florence of ye lambe, for in the pyell there was grauyn a lambe. [Cf. Chron. de S. Den., B.N. 2813, lf. 396 Appellez florins a l'aignel pour ce que en la pile avoit un aignel.] 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 254/1 Pyle of a coyne, the syde havyng no crosse, pile. 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. iii. 234 That you as sure, may Pick and Choose, As Cross I win, and Pile you loose. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Pile,..the backside of a piece of Money. 1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom I. xxiv. 161 I will toss up with you for a guinea, cross or pile as the saying is. 1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic II. iii. xviii. §1 Why, in tossing up a halfpenny, do we reckon it equally probable that we shall throw cross or pile? 1894 A. B. Gomme Trad. Games I. 82 Cross and Pile, the game now called ‘Heads and Tails’... Anciently the English coins were stamped on one side with a cross. 1930 R. M. Coates Outlaw Years iv. 189 But Stewart was looking for his horse. ‘Damn the horse! It's a cross-and-pile chance at best that you ever find him.’ 1995 J. L. Singman & W. McLean Daily Life in Chaucer's Eng. ix. 189 Cross and Pile was another simple pastime, exactly the same as modern Heads or Tails—one side of the medieval coin had a cross on it, the other a face, or ‘pile’. < as lemmas |
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