单词 | of a side |
释义 | > as lemmasof a side ΚΠ 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. v. f. 116 They make a hole in the earth, settynge twelue trunkes of these rootes..in euery of the sayd beddes conteynynge three rootes of a syde. 1589 L. Ward in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 653 The head part [sc. of a fish] I kept, in whose nose is like a sword a bone of two foote long, with 23 prickes of a side, sharpe and strange. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 160 The Investigators of nature doe say, that they haue fifteene teeth of a side. ?a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) ii. sig. D3v Old Simsons son of Showdam Thorp, that wears his great gall gaskins o'the Swash-fashion, with 8 or 10 gold laces of a side. 1701 G. Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair i. 5 The Pinners are double ruffled with twelve pleats of a side. 1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 83 Six banks of paddles, three banks of a side. a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) III. iii. 43 His face..all lines and wrinkles, nine grey hairs of a side . View more context for this quotation < as lemmas |
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