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单词 fire-slaught
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fire-slaughtn.

Brit. /ˈfʌɪəslɔːt/, U.S. /ˈfaɪ(ə)rˌslɔt/, /ˈfaɪ(ə)rˌslɑt/, Scottish English /ˈfaɪrslɔxt/
Forms: see fire n. and slaught n.; also Scottish pre-1700 fyre-sclacht, pre-1700 fyrschacht (transmission error), pre-1700 fyrschachte (transmission error).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: fire n., slaught n.
Etymology: < fire n. + slaught n. Compare Middle English (northern) firen slaght and slaght o fire (in the same source as quot. a1400; compare quot. a1400 at firen adj.). Compare later fire-flaught n. and the discussion at that entry.
Chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern). Now rare.
Lightning; a flash of lightning. Cf. fire-flaught n.
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lightning bolta1560
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fire-bolt?1562
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thunder-ball1820
leader stroke1934
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [noun] > lightning > stroke of
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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).
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