| 单词 | no other shift |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(to have) no other shift b. Available means of effecting an end. Often in phrase (to have) no other shift. Obsolete exc. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > recourse > [noun] > that to which one has recourse chevisancec1330 recoursec1405 resorta1413 refugec1425 shift1523 rescours1533 reserve1644 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > available means or a resource boota1225 chevisancec1330 shift1523 a help at maw1592 resource1665 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccccxiv. 293 We knowe all the shyfte in the countre [Fr. nous scauons tous les refuges] and so do nat they. c1600 A. Montgomerie Bankis Helicon 105 I have no schift bot to resing All power into hir handis. 1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. xiii. 60 Which pretense when Eumenes had espied, he had no other shift, but to try the matter against the traitor by the sword. 1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 74 This old man having no more shift to veile what he had hitherto endeavoured to conceale, declared unto his children that she was his wife. < as lemmas |
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