单词 | fire-slaught |
释义 | fire-slaughtn. Chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern). Now rare. Lightning; a flash of lightning. Cf. fire-flaught n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > lightning > bead or forked lightning > flash of laitc900 slaughta1300 levinc1300 fire-slaughta1400 flaughta1400 thunderboltc1440 fudder1513 fire-flaughta1522 flag of firea1522 bolt1535 strokea1542 lightning bolta1560 lightning1560 fire-bolt?1562 fulgur1563 fulmen1563 thunder-thump1563 light-bolt1582 fire-flash1586 blaze1590 flake1590 clap1591 blastc1665 glade1744 streak1781 thunder-ball1820 leader stroke1934 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [noun] > lightning > stroke of slaughta1300 fire-slaughta1400 strokea1542 lightning strike1876 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1769 Fire slaght fell wit thoner and rain. c1480 (a1400) St. Lawrence 16 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 403 Alsa it has vertu..fore to resyst a-gane fyre-slacht. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 47 The fyir slaucht vil consume the vyne. 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 24 As thunder on the fire-slacht's back. 1846 Drummond's Muckomachy 44 Like fire-slaught fliskin' hither-thither. 1999 A. Robbins Very Thought of You 41 Maybe only fire-slaught can kill. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1400 |
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