| 单词 | a horse that was foaled of an acorn |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa horse that was foaled of an acorn b. a horse that was foaled of an acorn: the scaffold, the gibbet. †to come for horse and harness: i.e. for one's own ends. †to run before one's horse to market: to count one's gains prematurely. horse and foot: see sense 3c. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > gallows gallowsOE gallows-treea1000 warytre?a1200 gibbet?c1225 gallow-forka1250 forkc1275 juisec1320 forchesc1380 crossa1382 treec1425 patible1428 justice1484 potencec1500 haltera1533 turning-tree1548 potentc1550 three treesa1566 chates1567 mare1568 furel1587 bough1590 gibe1590 derrickc1600 hangrella1605 cross-tree1638 Gregorian tree1641 wooden horse1642 timber-marec1650 triple tree1651 furca1653 nubbing1673 a horse that was foaled of an acorn1678 nub1699 Tyburn tree1728 raven-stone1738 picture frame1785 crap1789 lamp-iron1790 Moll Blood1818 stifler1818 scragging-post1819 government signposta1828 leafless tree1830 shuggie-shue1836 doom-tree1837 stob1860–62 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) lx. 86 [She] dyde come thyder only for hors and harnois that is to wete, to accomplisshe her fowle delyte. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. i. 160 But yet I run before my horse to market: Clarence still breathes, Edward still liues and raignes, When they are gone then must I count my gaines. View more context for this quotation 1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 253 You'll ride on a horse that was foal'd of an acorn. That is the gallows. 1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. xxviii. 128 May I ride on a Horse that was foal'd of an Acorn. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham III. xviii. 296 As pretty a Tyburn blossom as ever was brought up to ride a horse foaled by an acorn. < as lemmas |
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