单词 | lam |
释义 | lamn.1 A kind of fishing net. Also lam-net. (Cf. lammet n.) ΚΠ 1626 H. Spelman Glossarium at Lama Sed nos hodie retis genus quo vtuntur piscatores, a lam vocamus. 1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia Lam net, a net into which fish are driven by beating the water. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lamn.2 Weaving. (See quot. 1883.) ΚΠ 1801 J. Butterworth in A. Barlow Weaving (1878) 317 The generality of weavers couple the first and third healds or shafts, and so are enabled to weave it with only two lams. 1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield Lams, pieces of wood in a loom, connected with the treadles by strings, which are connected also with the jacks (above) in a similar way, and work the yelds. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lamn.3 U.S. slang. Escape, flight. Esp. in on the lam, on the run; take it on the (or a) lam (see quot. 1935). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [noun] scapea1300 escapec1300 escapingc1325 scapingc1374 evasiona1464 escapal1634 escapement1824 lam1897 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [noun] > flight or running away flemeOE flightc1175 fuge1436 fuite1499 fleec1560 fugacyc1600 tergiversationa1652 runaway1720 run1799 fugitation1823 skedaddling1863 skedaddle1870 lam1897 run-out1928 1897 Appleton's Pop. Sci. Monthly Apr. 832 To do a lam, meaning to run. 1904 ‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing xiii. 263 He plugged the main guy for keeps and I took it on a lam for mine. 1931 D. Runyon Guys & Dolls (1932) iii. 56 Then Louie gets the back door open and takes it on the lam through an areaway. 1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 118/2 Take it on the lam, to run away; escape. 1953 W. R. Burnett Vanity Row xiii. 94 The dolly was on the lam. 1959 John o' London's Weekly 10 Dec. 322/3 A young man stops the car, points a gun at them, and orders them to drive him to the border. He is a juvenile delinquent, ‘on the lam’ after a robbery. 1968 Washington Post 5 July A20/1 What useful public purpose is served by making it easy for convicts on the lam from a state penitentiary to acquire an arsenal? 1972 G. Baxt Burning Sappho ix. 158 Were you stalling for time while your Brunhilde takes it on the lam? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lamv. 1. transitive. To beat soundly; to thrash; to ‘whack’. Now colloquial or dialect. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > beat threshOE beatc1000 to lay on?c1225 chastise1362 rapa1400 dressc1405 lack?c1475 paya1500 currya1529 coil1530 cuff1530 baste1533 thwack1533 lick1535 firka1566 trounce1568 fight1570 course1585 bumfeage1589 feague1589 lamback1589 lambskin1589 tickle1592 thrash1593 lam1595 bumfeagle1598 comb1600 fer1600 linge1600 taw1600 tew1600 thrum1604 feeze1612 verberate1614 fly-flap1620 tabor1624 lambaste1637 feak1652 flog1676 to tan (a person's) hide1679 slipper1682 liquora1689 curry-comb1708 whack1721 rump1735 screenge1787 whale1790 lather1797 tat1819 tease1819 larrup1823 warm1824 haze1825 to put (a person) through a course of sprouts1839 flake1841 swish1856 hide1875 triangle1879 to give (a person or thing) gyp1887 soak1892 to loosen (a person's) hide1902 the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person to-beatc893 threshOE bustc1225 to lay on or upon?c1225 berrya1250 to-bunea1250 touchc1330 arrayc1380 byfrapc1380 boxc1390 swinga1400 forbeatc1420 peal?a1425 routa1425 noddlea1450 forslinger1481 wipe1523 trima1529 baste1533 waulk1533 slip1535 peppera1550 bethwack1555 kembc1566 to beat (a person) black and blue1568 beswinge1568 paik1568 trounce1568 canvass1573 swaddle?1577 bebaste1582 besoop1589 bumfeage1589 dry-beat1589 feague1589 lamback1589 clapperclaw1590 thrash1593 belam1595 lam1595 beswaddle1598 bumfeagle1598 belabour1600 tew1600 flesh-baste1611 dust1612 feeze1612 mill1612 verberate1614 bethumpa1616 rebuke1619 bemaul1620 tabor1624 maula1627 batterfang1630 dry-baste1630 lambaste1637 thunder-thump1637 cullis1639 dry-banga1640 nuddle1640 sauce1651 feak1652 cotton1654 fustigate1656 brush1665 squab1668 raddle1677 to tan (a person's) hide1679 slam1691 bebump1694 to give (a person) his load1694 fag1699 towel1705 to kick a person's butt1741 fum1790 devel1807 bray1808 to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813 mug1818 to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821 welt1823 hidea1825 slate1825 targe1825 wallop1825 pounce1827 to lay into1838 flake1841 muzzle1843 paste1846 looder1850 frail1851 snake1859 fettle1863 to do over1866 jacket1875 to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877 to take apart1880 splatter1881 to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884 to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886 to do up1887 to —— (the) hell out of1887 to beat — bells out of a person1890 soak1892 to punch out1893 stoush1893 to work over1903 to beat up1907 to punch up1907 cream1929 shellac1930 to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931 duff1943 clobber1944 to fill in1948 to bash up1954 to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976 to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983 beast1990 becurry- fan- 1595 [implied in: Witts, Fittes, & F. 146 His father mainly belamb'd him for the fact. (at belam v.)]. 1596 Thomas's Dict. (1606) Defusto, to lamme or bumbast with strokes. 1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd ix. 111 They will not sticke to strip them and lamme them soundly. 1719 J. Ozell tr. F. M. Misson Mem. Trav. Eng. 306 A Fellow, whom he lamb'd most horribly. 1783 Ainsworth's Thes. Linguæ Latinæ (new ed.) i Lammed, Verberatus. 1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 112 Quoth he, I would pummel and lam her well. 1869 F. H. Ludlow Little Brother 16 I wish I'd been there; I'd ha' lammed him, I would! 2. a. intransitive. Chiefly school-boy slang, as to lam (it) into one, to lam out. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > beat or flog [verb (intransitive)] lash1398 lather1797 vapulate1818 lam1875 larrup1939 the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (intransitive)] > specifically a person to lay ona1225 to dust a person's jacket1630 to brush one's coat for him1665 to give (one) sock(s)1699 pepper1829 lam1875 beast1990 1875 ‘A. R. Hope’ My Schoolboy Friends 179 ‘I had six cuts..and Vialls did lam into me.’ 1882 ‘F. Anstey’ Vice Versâ (ed. 19) 84 ‘Let him undress now, and we can lam it into him afterwards with slippers.’ 1894 A. Conan Doyle Round Red Lamp 276 ‘Lam out with your whip as hard as you can lick.’ b. dialect. (See quot. 1895) Cf. lam n.1 ΚΠ 1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia Lamming for eels, thrashing the water to make the eels go into a net. 3. intransitive. To run off, to escape, to ‘beat it’. U.S. slang. ΚΠ 1886 A. Pinkerton Thirty Years a Detective 41 After he [sc. a pickpocket] has secured the wallet he will..utter the word ‘lam!’ This means to let the man go, and to get out of the way as soon as possible. 1901 Smart Set Oct. 3/2 Well, when he [sc. Uncle Remus] was just driven to desperation he ‘lammed aloose’, and so shall I. 1932 Evening Sun (Baltimore) 9 Dec. 31/5 Lam, run away from the police. 1935 R. E. Sherwood Petrified Forest ii. 124 Say, boss—we better lam out of here. 1935 R. E. Sherwood Petrified Forest ii. 158 I hear a car coming, boss. We better lam. 1935 R. E. Sherwood Petrified Forest ii. 162 When they get around there, we'll lam. 1946 ‘P. Quentin’ Puzzle for Fiends (1947) xvi. 111 When I get my share, I'll lam out of this place so fast you won't see me for dust. 1959 P. Townend Died o' Wednesday iv. 61 What was it they always did in any self-respecting cowboy film?—lammed out..and took to the hills. 1973 M. Mackintosh King & Two Queens xii. 171 The time of death..[was] four days before Fisher lammed out. Derivatives ˈlamming n. a beating, a thrashing. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > [noun] > specific object a person threshingOE sousingc1580 rib-roast1595 basting1599 swingeing1603 cuffing1610 lamming1611 rib-roasting1613 mauling1621 pinking1637 drubbing1650 diverberation1651 verberation1661 trimming1675 rib1699 thrashing1720 dousing1721 fagging1746 bumping1751 dusting1799 clapperclawing1806 milling1806 hiding1809 punishment1811 doing1814 bethumping1831 mugging1846 jacketing1850 frailing1851 pasting1851 towelling1851 tanning1863 fum-fum1885 ribbing1894 paddywhack1898 tanking1905 beating-up1915 shellacking1931 sloshing1931 clobbering1948 twatting1963 duffing-up1967 society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > beating > instance of threshingOE fustigation1428 breeching1520 trouncingc1550 bace1575 firking1594 belting1602 knave's grease1602 oil of baston1604 oil of birch1604 oil of hazel1604 oil of holly1604 oil of whip1604 lamb-pie1607 lamming1611 drubbing1650 vapulation1656 warming1681 floggation1688 working over1695 cullis1719 thrashing1720 halberd1756 licking1756 dressing1769 leathering1790 nointing1794 dusting1799 teasing1807 hiding1809 whopping1812 thrumming1823 toco1823 flaking1829 teaser1832 lathering1835 welting1840 pasting1851 towelling1851 whaling1852 hickory oil1855 swishing1859 slating1860 going-over1881 six of the best1912 belt beating1928 ass-kicking1943 stomping1958 seeing to1968 butt-kicking1970 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Gaulée,..a cudgelling, basting, thwacking, lamming. 1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher King & No King (new ed.) v. 76 One whose dull bodie will require a laming: as surfeits doe the diet. 1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield Lammin, i.e. lamming, a beating. ˈlamster n. (also ˈlammister) a fugitive, a person on the run. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [noun] > flight or running away > one who runs away fugitive1382 runner1440 fleer1488 flyera1500 fugitour1533 runaway1534 runagate1539 fleeter1581 sure flight1599 runagadea1604 deserter?a1645 refugee1754 fly-away1838 skedaddler1864 lamster1904 1904 ‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing 250 Lamaster, fugitive from justice; one who forfeits bail-bonds. 1926 Clues Nov. 161/2 Lamster, fugitive. Also a member of a pickpocket gang that leaves with the loot. 1948 E. L. Irey Tax Dodgers (1949) 47 ‘My line,’ he said, ‘is keeping quiet.’ With that he had told Kelly that he was a lammister, in other words fleeing justice. 1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie ix. 81 Gamblers, perverts, drifters, and lamsters from every State in the Union. 1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed xii. 81 Smuggling American lamsters into Canada. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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