单词 | hair's brede |
释义 | > as lemmashair's brede b. With of or genitive. A distance equal or comparable to the breadth of something specified, such as a finger, hair, or hand. In later use only in hair's brede. Cf. breadth n. 1b, width n. 1b.See also hair-brede n., handbreed n., straw brede n., etc.In quot. eOE in comparison to the distance a thing may be thrown (with a sling). ΚΠ eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Otho) iv. xvii. 304 Is sio stow æghwonan mid sæ ymbseald butan westan; ðonan hit hafað ingang, swa micelre brædo swa mon mæge mid liðeran geweorpan [L. unde habet ingressum amplitudinis quasi iactus fundae]. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 7229 Þre [read þe] brede of þre londes. a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 303 (MED) Þou muste binde his arme þe brede of foure fyngris aboue þe place. c1475 (a1400) Awntyrs Arthure (Taylor) in J. Robson Three Early Eng. Metrical Romances (1842) 21 (MED) Him lakket no more to be slayne, Butte the brede of hore. ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Civ Fro whiche cometh a corde that thre fyngre brede fro the elbow enlargeth and compriseth all the elbow. 1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. B.ivv Not the breede [1577 breade] of one heare. 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xliii I winna flench a hair's breid for nedder man nor 'oman. 1910 J. Prior Fortuna Chance 130 Yo wain't ha' noticed, but my legs are just a tinety bit tother side o' knock-kneed; hardly a hair's brede, but the wenches allus hae summat to say again iv'rybody. < as lemmas |
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