单词 | lead in |
释义 | > as lemmasto lead in b. To carry or convey, usually in a cart or other vehicle. Now northern dialect: To cart (coal, corn, stones, turf, etc.). to lead in (grain): to house. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport or convey in a vehicle [verb (transitive)] leadc900 drive1667 vehicle1680 ride1687 c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) i. i. 30 Of Breotone nædran on scipum lædde wæron. c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. iii. v. [vii.] 168 Hædde biscop heht his lichoman..lædan to Wintaceastre. a1225 Leg. Kath. 2251 We, aȝeines þin heast, þæt licome awei ledden. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1772 To læden þis garisume to leuene mine fadere. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. iv. 130 Lawe schal ben a laborer and leden [1377 lede] a-feld dounge. c1386 G. Chaucer Monk's Tale 158 The vessel of the temple he with hym ladde. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5129 Siluer and gold þai wit þam ledd. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xxiii. 248 Thei leiden hire Houses with hem upon chariottes. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 5300 Þare armour hame þai led. a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 813 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 326 Þe vssher ledes þat on hed ryȝt. a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 33 Whenne þou hast covered hit [sc. venesone] so, Lede hit home. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) x. 195 Vith this bunnok spokin had thai To leid [1489 Adv. lede] thair hay. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) x. l. 916 A drawcht off wod to leid. 1528 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 260 To Smythson, for ledinge corne at Acclame, vjs. viijd. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 604/2 He was ledde thorowe the towne upon a hardell and so to the galowes. 1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 597 Leidand Coillis he ȝeid To Paris the way. 1594 Acct.-bk. W. Wray in Antiquary (1896) 32 55 For leding ij lodes of haye, xijd. 1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1891) 93 And being thus dried throwlie they [turfs] are led home and layed then vp. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iii. 270 Faith sir, ha's led the drumme before the English Tragedians. View more context for this quotation 1683 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 341 For two load of lime and leading it, 5s. 1721 A. Ramsay Elegy Patie Birnie v Tho' peats and turfs and a's to lead. 1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 195 In no case to reap when they ought to be leading in (housing) their grain. 1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 43 One shilling a load is the price generally paid for leading a cart-load of warp. 1841 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2 ii. 191 He undertakes to convey (or lead, as the term is) all the materials for a new building. 1887 H. Caine Deemster II. xvi. 14 Davy was sent for the pair of oxen to where they were leading manure. 1891 J. C. Atkinson Forty Years Moorland Parish 64 The people of the farm in question..had been leading, that is, carting hay in a ‘catchy’ time. to lead in c. Of a clue, light, sound, etc.: To serve (a person) as an indication of the way; to mark the course for. Also absol. to lead in (Nautical): to mark the course for entering port. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > show (the way) [verb (transitive)] > guide, lead, or show one the way > specifically of a clue, light, or sound to beat out1672 twinkle1690 lead1697 unwind1716 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 129 By the tinkling Sound of Timbrels led, The King of Heav'n in Cretan Caves they fed. View more context for this quotation 1824 T. Campbell Theodric 185 Led by that clue, he left not England's shore Till he had known her. 1834 J. H. Newman in Brit. Mag. Feb. 153 Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on! 1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 316 The two latter Lights in line lead in. < as lemmas |
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