| 单词 | king's yarn |
| 释义 | > as lemmasking's yarn king's yarn n. now historical and rare yarn of a distinctive colour woven into a rope for the purpose of identifying it as crown property; (chiefly and in earliest use in similative and figurative contexts) an indicator of a particular quality, character, etc.; cf. rogue's yarn n. at rogue n. and adj. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 163/1 Pray God he may'nt turn out to be a king's-yarn of the old fellow [sc. the devil] himself. 1845 Newall versus Webster & Others 135 A mark like the King's yarn put into a rope to colour it?—It was a yarn to distinguish it. 1875 Indianapolis Jrnl. 25 Dec. 3/3 Like the King's yarn in the British cable—a thread of bright intelligence and tender feeling runs through this [iron-bound, inflexible] nature and makes it high and sweet. a1891 H. Melville Billy Budd (1962) vii. 63 Don't you think there is a queer streak of the pedantic running through him? Yes, like the King's yarn in a coil of navy-rope? 1951 Amer. Q. Summer 104 Like the King's yarn, that colored strand woven through cordage to denote it as the property of the crown, constant learned allusion threads its way through the fabric of Melville's tale. < as lemmas |
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