| 单词 | a brace | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasa brace (of ducks)  c.  of things. (More correctly when united or paired, as in a  brace of pistols.) a brace of shakes: see shake n.1 2h. Hence in Cricket:  a brace (of ducks), a score of nought in both innings of a match;  to bag a brace, to score nought in both innings. ΚΠ 1583    P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Fviv  				Their Parents owe a brase of hunndred pounds more than they are worth. 1630    M. Godwin tr.  F. Godwin Ann. Eng.  ii. 232  				Robert Ket..had gathered a fortune of a brace of thousands. 1642    T. Fuller Holy State  iii. vii. 167  				Borrowing of thy neighbour a brace of chambers for a night. 1719    D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 200  				The two Muskets I loaded with a Brace of Slugs each. 1725    London Gaz. No. 6372/3  				Shot through the Left Arm with a Brace of Bullets. 1755    C. Charke Narr. Life 45  				A heavy Blunderbuss, a Muscatoon, and two Brace of Pistols. 1832    H. Martineau Ireland v. 85  				Three brace of pistols. 1867    John Lillywhite's Cricketers' Compan. 		(ed. 23)	 57  				Tom Humphrey achieved the feat of ‘bagging a brace’. 1891    W. G. Grace Cricket xi. 329  				In 1868, he got me out for a brace of ‘ducks’ at Neath. 1903    P. F. Warner in  H. G. Hutchinson Cricket xiv. 398  				More than one well-known cricketer has ‘bagged a brace’ there. 1912    A. A. Lilley Twenty-four Years Cricket v. 65  				Noble and Gregory..were thus dismissed for a ‘brace’. 1929    Chicago Sunday Trib. 25 Aug.  i. 3/7  				They found Edward Barnett..and his brother..sleeping with a brace of automatics under their pillows. < as lemmas  | 
	
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