单词 | day's wait |
释义 | > as lemmas(day's) wait a. (day's) wait: the duty of keeping guard by day performed by the warders of the Tower. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > [noun] > as a watchman or sentinel > by the warders of the Tower (day's) wait1694 1694 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 18) iii. 608 The Yeoman Warders of the Tower are 40 in number... Ten of them are usually upon the Days-wait. 1738–47 in Pegge Curialia iii. (1791) 103 When the Man waiting for another hath performed such Wait, he shall not be permitted to wait again, so as to continue his Wait for divers Men one after another. < as lemmas |
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