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单词 aweband
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awebandn.

Brit. /ˈɔːband/, U.S. /ˈɔˌbænd/, /ˈɑˌbænd/, Scottish English /ˈɔban(d)/, /ˈɔbən/
Forms: see awe n.1 and band n.1; also 1500s–1600s awebond, 1800s awbun.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: awe n.1, band n.1
Etymology: < awe n.1 (compare awe n.1 2) + band n.1With the form awebond compare bond n.1
Chiefly Scottish. Now rare.
1. A check or restraint on someone or something. Frequently with reference to religion or morality as sources of constraint on personal behaviour.Frequently, and after the 17th century apparently only, in Scottish use.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > [noun] > means of restraint or restraining force
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1531 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Chron. Scotl. (1941) II. xii. xv. 181 Þe thevis, dredand þis castell to be ane awband to þame, conspyritt aganis him.
1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall xv. sig. D4 For but the remembrance onely of death or buriall and their consequences..is an effectuall awband of affection and restraint to sin.
1653 R. Baxter Right Method Settled Peace 159 Fears of the wrath of God..are..the awe-band of your soul.
1735 A. Ramsay Addr. Thanks from Society of Rakes 5 Since the Awband's tane away, The bony Lass has nought to say Against a moral Duty.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Aweband The dignified looks of this lady proved such an aweband on the giddy young men, that they never once opened their mouths.
1932 J. M. E. Saxby Shetland Trad. Lore 66 He never telled what he heard or saw as lang as he bed wi' da Trows. Dey were an awebaund upon him.
2. Scottish. A device consisting of a curved piece of wood with a rope attached at either end, used to tie cattle to a stake or stall. Obsolete.Jamieson (1825) remarks that this sense ‘ought certainly to be viewed as the primary one’.
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1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Aweband, Awband, a band for tying black cattle to the stake... It is used to keep in order the more unruly animals, or to prevent them from throwing their heads from one side of the stake to the other.
1896 H. Ochiltree Redburn (Amer. ed.) viii. 97 Aucht wull never tak' the awbun frae her neck.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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