单词 | hell-rake |
释义 | hell-raken.1 = hell-raker n. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [noun] > person unthriftc1330 riotor1389 rioterc1440 palliard1484 skyrgalliarda1529 rakehellc1560 ranger1560 rakeshame1598 dissolute1608 pavement-beater1611 rakell1622 ranter1652 huzza1660 whorehopper1664 profligate1679 rakehellonian1692 rake1693 buck1725 blood1749 gay blade1750 have-at-alla1761 rakehellyc1768 hell-rake?1774 randan1779 rip1781 roué1781 hell-raker1816 tiger1827 raver1960 dog1994 ?1774 R. Sanders Lucubrations Gaffer Graybeard I. xviii. 148 Nobody could keep you from gadding after all the hell-rakes of the town. 1851 R. St. Clair Jones Brothers of Valencia iii. ii. 37 Thou Hell-rake. 1859 R. Piddington Last of Cavaliers III. 94 Sot and hellrake as he always was. 1931 A. C. Train Puritan's Progress xvii. 399 If enough of a hell rake, he might drop into his club on the way back to supper. 1984 J. W. Crawford Early Shakespearean Actresses 46 Her range of parts reached from Ophelia to the hoydens and hell-rakes of Restoration comedy. 2006 Newsweek (Nexis) 6 Nov. (Theater section) 68 [He] makes Ahrab a crepuscular hellrake, running on fumes at 90 miles an hour. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hell-raken.2 English regional (southern and midlands) and Welsh English. A large rake with curved teeth, used typically for gathering loose hay. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > rake > hay-rake hay-crome1599 wain-rakea1642 hay-rake1725 hell-rake1794 1794 R. F. Greville Diary 28 Aug. (1930) 309 His M. order'd Me to call at Farmer Sherring's where I order'd two of those Broad Rakes called Hell Rakes. 1851 Notes & Queries 4 Oct. 260/2 In this district (the Cotswolds) we generally suppose the derivation to be from the rake being an ell in width. In the vale, however (i.e. about Tewkesbury) they are called heel-rakes, from their being drawn at the heel of the person using them, instead of being used in front, as rakes ordinarily are. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. at Ell-rake Theer'll be mighty little lef' fur the laisers; they'n bin draggin' that ell-rake ever sence daylight. 1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (E.D.S.) Ell-rake, eller-rake. 1988 J. Lavers Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 43 Hell rake also heel rake, a large rake with curved iron teeth used to clear the field at harvest after the greater part of the crop has been gathered. 1999 D. Parry Gram. & Gloss. Conservative Anglo-Welsh Dial. Rural Wales 160/1 Heel-rake, a large rake for turning hay, having long, curved teeth, and used by hand. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hell-rakev. rare. transitive. To treat wildly or destructively; to devastate; to massacre. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > devastate or lay waste (a place, etc.) harryc893 fordoc900 awesteeOE westeeOE losec950 harrowc1000 destroyc1230 wastec1275 ravishc1325 to lie waste1338 exilea1382 to-wastea1382 unronea1400 desolatea1425 vast1434 fruster?a1513 to lay waste1535 wipe1535 devast1537 depopulate1548 populate1552 forwaste1563 ruinate1564 havoc1575 scourge1576 dispopulate1588 destitute1593 ravage1602 harassa1618 devastate1638 execute1679 to make stroy of1682 to lay in ashes1711 untown1783 hell-rake1830 uncity1850 1830 J. Banim Denounced I. 117 Let go to canter it, and tatter it, and hell-rake it about the country. 1915 J. E. Flecker Old Ships 5 The pirate Genoese Hell-raked them till they rolled Blood, water, fruit and corpses up the hold. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1?1774n.21794v.1830 |
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