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单词 lam
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lamn.1

Brit. /lam/, U.S. /læm/
Etymology: ? < lam v. (sense 2b).
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

Brit. /lam/, U.S. /læm/
Etymology: < French lame (lit. ‘blade’) in the same sense.
Weaving.
(See quot. 1883.)
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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

Brit. /lam/, U.S. /læm/
Etymology: < lam v. 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.

Brit. /lam/, U.S. /læm/
Forms: 1500s–1700s lamme, lamb, 1600s lambe, 1700s lamm, 1500s– lam.
Etymology: Compare Old Norse lęmja (past tense lamða ), lit. ‘to lame’ (= Old English lęmian , < lama lame adj.), but chiefly used with reference to beating.
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!
in extended use.1898 Westm. Gaz. 20 July 7/2 The Lancashire amateur..woke up in astonishing fashion and lammed the ball in every direction to the delight of all beholders.
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 276Lam 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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