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单词 a pair of tables
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a pair (of) tables
b. A small portable tablet for writing upon, esp. for notes or memoranda; a writing tablet. Frequently in a pair (of) tables. Now chiefly historical.
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OE Seven Sleepers (Julius) (1994) 43 Hi ða twegen getreowfæste wæron.., þas halgan martyrrace..on anum leadenum tabulan [L. in paginis plumbeis] ealle mid stafon agrofon, and hi ðæt gewrit mid twam sylfrenan inseglum on anre teage geinsegledon.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Macc. xiv. 17 Thei wryten to hym in brasen tablis [L. in tabulis aereis].
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 257 (MED) Charles..bare a peyre of tables for to write ynne.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11087 Þam asked þan sir zachari Tables and a pontel tite.
c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 25 He took a peyre tables, and wroot in þe wax al his desir.
?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xxviii. sig. Hiv Ye must search Angles of position agayne, and marke them in the table or slate.
a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) i. sig. C2 Draw your tables, and write what wise I speake.
1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre iv. iii. 56 in Wks. II I saw one of you buy a paire of tables, e'en now.
1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 66 These things are imprinted and formed in her as in a Table.
1789–96 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. II. 27 The old..manner of writing, before the use of paper of any kind, and waxen tables, was known.
1829 T. Skidmore Rights of Man to Property iv. 132 Where, is the table of wax? Where is the record in marble? Is title engraved on the surface of the earth?
1902 W. C. Smith Poet. Wks. i. iii. 381 They..write on tables messages that mean Nothing or anything—just as we wish.
1987 M. B. Garber Shakespeare's Ghost Writers vi. 150 The writing tables, then, must take the place of another kind of ‘table’ in Hamlet, the table at which one eats and drinks.
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a pair of tables
b. Originally: each of the two folding leaves of a board for playing backgammon or a similar game; chiefly in plural denoting the board as a whole, esp. in a pair of tables. In later use chiefly: each half of each leaf of a backgammon board, forming together the four areas in which the pieces are moved. Cf. sense 18.
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1415 in F. A. Page-Turner Bedfordshire Wills (1914) 26 (MED) A paire of tablis wt þe mayne.
1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 376 A paire of Tabyls, tabelle.
1534 in Camden Misc. (1855) III. 39 One paire of tables of peerle,..withoute table men.
?1573 L. Lloyd Pilgrimage of Princes f. 76v The Arte of dicing, and playing diuers kinde of games vpon tables.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Damier, a Chesse-boord; or, paire of Tables.
1657 tr. A. Thevet Prosopographia 11 in T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (new ed.) Necessitated to cast up the Cards, to shut the Tables, and to resign the Game.
1745 E. Hoyle Backgammon 22 Two Fours, two of them are to take your Adversary's Cinq Point in his Tables.
1779 Mackenzie in Mirror No. 11. ⁋13 [He] snatched up the tables and hit Douglas a blow on the head.
1868 H. T. Riley tr. in Memorials of London 395 A pair of tables, on the outside of which was painted a chequer-board, that is called a ‘quek’.
?1870 F. Hardy & J. R. Ware Mod. Hoyle 141 The object of the game is to bring the men round to your own ‘home’, or inner table.
1934 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 54 203/1 Transferring his men through his opponent's tables back to a home table, exactly as in backgammon.
1956 Islamic Q. 3 240 This may refer to the primitive form of the backgammon-board, similar to the variety of the game called medio emperador..which was played on a board of two tables.
1973 Daily Tel. 29 June (Colour Suppl.) 39/4 The board, I learnt, with 12 triangles or ‘points’ of alternate colours down each side, is divided into four ‘tables’ of six points each.
2002 J. Altman 1,001 Dreams 424 The game's object, to be the first player to remove all your pieces from the outer table to the inner table and then off the board altogether, may point to your desire to discover or resolve the secrets of your unconscious.
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