| 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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