| 单词 | a spell ago | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasa spell ago  d.   for a spell, for a time. In U.S. without preposition; also  a spell ago, some time ago. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > 			[adverb]		 > for a time (for) a spacec1405 for a long, short, etc. season1465 a whilst1595 for a spell1745 the world > time > relative time > the past > past			[phrase]		 > a while ago a spell ago1745 (a)(b)1745    D. Giddings Jrnl. 27 May in  Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. 		(1912)	 XLVIII. 299  				I..continued in ye Trench a Spell.1834    S. Smith Sel. Lett. Major Jack Downing lxxi. 204  				I gritted my teeth a spell.1858    J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. 		(rev. ed.)	 in  Poet. Wks. II. 105  				He stood a spell on one foot fust, Then stood a spell on tother.1884    Harper's Mag. Feb. 410/2  				He tried doctorin' a spell.(c)1862    A. Trollope N. Amer. I. 186  				I wish those masons..could be driven to the labour market of Western America for a spell.1890    Argus 		(Melbourne)	 7 June 4/1  				I..was told by an honest and sensible doctor to..get out in the bush and work for a spell. 1834    C. A. Davis Lett. J. Downing, Major xxx. 250  				Mahogany was as cheap as pine boards was a spell ago. c1850    ‘Dow, Jr.’ in  W. Jerdan Yankee Humour 		(1853)	 88  				That woman who broomed me out of the house a spell ago. < as lemmas | 
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