| 单词 | dry tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdry tree b. A gallows. Also †dry tree, Tyburn tree. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > gallows gallowsOE gallows-treea1000 warytre?a1200 gibbet?c1225 gallow-forka1250 forkc1275 juisec1320 forchesc1380 crossa1382 treec1425 patible1428 justice1484 potencec1500 haltera1533 turning-tree1548 potentc1550 three treesa1566 chates1567 mare1568 furel1587 bough1590 gibe1590 derrickc1600 hangrella1605 cross-tree1638 Gregorian tree1641 wooden horse1642 timber-marec1650 triple tree1651 furca1653 nubbing1673 a horse that was foaled of an acorn1678 nub1699 Tyburn tree1728 raven-stone1738 picture frame1785 crap1789 lamp-iron1790 Moll Blood1818 stifler1818 scragging-post1819 government signposta1828 leafless tree1830 shuggie-shue1836 doom-tree1837 stob1860–62 c1425 Cast. Persev. 177 in Macro Plays 82 Pyncecras, Parys, & longe Pygmayne, And euery toun in Trage, euyn to þe dreye tre. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 148 Sum..nevir fra taking can hald his hand, Quhill he be tit vp to ane tre. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xviii. 49 Not lettynge for fere of any deth, though it be to go to the dry tre. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Esther vi. A To hange Mardocheus on ye tre, yt he had prepared for him. 1609 B. Jonson Masque of Queens ad init. From the dungeon, from the tree That they die on, here are we [witches]! a1704 T. Brown Satire upon Quack in Wks. (1720) I. 70 Though 'twas thy Luck to cheat the fatal Tree. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iii*, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 87 The area of the Grassmarket..in the centre of which arose the fatal tree, tall, black, and ominous, from which dangled the deadly halter. 1847 C. Kingsley Outlaw x And when I'm taen and hangit,..ye'll steal me frae the tree. < as lemmas |
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