单词 | back-speir |
释义 | back-speirback-spearv. Scottish. To re-examine, cross-examine. back-speirer n. cross-examiner. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > interrogation > [noun] > cross-examination > person conducting back-speirera1689 cross-examiner1838 the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > interrogation > question, interrogate [verb (transitive)] > cross-examine cross-examine1664 cross-question1760 targea1796 back-speir1796 cross-hackle1826 a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 101 Several times affronted By slie Backspearers, and accounted An emptie Rogue. 1796 J. Ramsey in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1839) I. 348 It is however easier to backspeir you. 1860 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life i. 111 ‘I winna be back-spiered noo, Polly Fullarton.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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