单词 | every stick |
释义 | > as lemmasevery (also †ilk, †ilka) stick a. every (also †ilk, †ilka) stick: all the parts or materials of a thing, esp. a building or other structure; the whole of a thing. Also used adverbially: totally, completely. Often in the context of total destruction or ruin. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] high and low1397 every (also ilk, ilka) stick?a1400 root and rind?a1400 hair and hide?c1450 stout and routc1450 bane and routc1480 overthwart and endlonga1500 (in) hide and hairc1575 right out1578 horse and footc1600 flesh and fella1616 root and branch1640 stab and stow1680 stoop and roop1728 stick, stock, stone dead1796 rump and stump1824 stump and rump1825 rump and rig1843 good and1885 ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) ii. 2749 Carro, Lodelow toun,..Dunford, & Maltoun, Steuen wan þam ilk a stik. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 1311 Þus..þe strenth [of Alexander's towers] ilk stike was in a stounde wasted. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxx. 743 They fell a flinging of fire upon the lodgings and sheds.., they were all at once on a light fire, and burnt every stick downe to the ground. 1628 W. Bedell Let. 5 Mar. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. cxxxv. 403 In the mean while the Scholars..have pulled it [sc. the Inclosure at the Colledg-Gate] all down, every Stick, and brought it away into the Colledg to several Chambers. 1660 Z. Crofton Αναληψις Ανεληϕθη 33 I knew a man passing through an old rotten house, got a knock on his pate, and in his passion, sware he would pull it down and burn it every stick. 1738 Common Sense (1739) 17 June II. 118 I saw their Nest intirely demolished, and every Stick of it removed. 1751 J. Arbuthnot Hist. John Bull iii. xv, in Misc. Wks. II. 78 He..fell unawares on Philip's Boats..and sunk, burnt, and took every Stick of them. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. ix. x. 522 Two villages, Fuhrenheim and Sandhausen, it swam away, every stick of them. 1993 V. Milan From Depths xviii. 199 I will blast every stick of your military equipment that's bigger than a rifle into slag. < as lemmas |
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