| 单词 | death flurry |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdeath flurry death flurry n. an animal's death throes; spec. (Whaling) the convulsive struggling of a dying harpooned whale (see flurry n. 2b); also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > death throes throwingeOE death throec1300 throec1300 stour1340 bale-stourc1400 gasping1440 agonya1500 (one's) last gasp1564 death flurry1831 1831 Sailor's Mag. Sept. 27/2 The morning's work..had brought a whale to his death-flurry. 1841 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 105 The flapping of tails and fins in the ‘death flurry’ of huge Saurians. 1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. ci. 2 The convulsive effort,—‘death-flurry’ as the whalers call it,—which is taking place in America on the subject of slavery. 1908 Agric. Jrnl. Cape Good Hope May 577 The death flurry often met with in Fowl Cholera. a1939 T. K. Whipple Study out Land (1943) 79 A literature infatuated with death has gone into its frantic death flurry. 2009 A. E. Beidler Eating Owen 71 Better to be struck down by the lashing tale of a frenzied whale in its death flurry. < as lemmas |
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