| 单词 | cut over |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cut over to cut over 1. intransitive. To run or pass across: see 17. ΘΠ society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > pass straight through or across cut1551 to cut over1551 cleave1655 1551 [see sense 17]. 1576 [see sense 17]. 2. transitive. To cut down the trees or bushes growing over (an area); to pass over cutting. Π 1789 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 1 171 By the time the whole four acres had been cut over. 1889 W. Schlich Man. Forestry I. 10 The trees consist of stool shoots or root suckers which are cut over periodically. 3. To strike a person sharply over some part of the body with a weapon or missile; mostly passive: e.g. to be struck over the legs at hockey, to be struck or hurt by the ball at cricket; to be wounded. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > stroke with weapon > strike with a weapon [verb (transitive)] areach1014 maulc1225 hitc1275 smitec1275 reachc1330 strike1377 to cut over1867 the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > strike with an object > sharply to cut over1867 1867 John Lillywhite's Cricketers' Compan. (ed. 23) 12 You will..prevent yourself from being cut over in that part which takes all the batting out of you. 1874 G. W. Dasent Half a Life I. 122 [At hockey] Now mind you look out..or you'll be cut over. 1890 R. Kipling Wee Willie Winkie 66 If he lives, he writes Home that he has been ‘potted’, ‘sniped’, ‘chipped’, or ‘cut over’. 1893 Cricket Field 29 July 304 He was cut over twice in rapid succession owing to inequalities in the ground, and inaccuracies in the bowlers. 4. To cut down, throw over with a slashing blow. Π 1884 J. Colborne With Hicks Pasha in Soudan 153 The officer cut over the first with a blow on his neck. cut over 17. intransitive. To cross, to pass straight through or across; esp. cut over, cut across (adv. or preposition). ΘΠ society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > pass straight through or across cut1551 to cut over1551 cleave1655 1551 in Acts Privy Council (1891) III. 320 The Marishall..woll passe by lande to Dovour, and from thens cutt over to Bulloigne. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 207 Thus haue I walked about this whole Diocoese: now therefore let me cutte ouer to Watlingstreete. 1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 163 Except the ships cut and take course even justlie betweene both, they hardlie scape drowning. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxviii. ii. 669 b Before that he cut over the streights of Gibraltar to Gades. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. ii. 88 Cutting thorow the Magelanike Straits..he encompassed the whole world. 1823 New Monthly Mag. 8 500 A few of the most active cut across to the shallows. 1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma xiv. 47 They cut across the deer studded park. < as lemmas |
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