单词 | pit-hole |
释义 | pit-holen. 1. A hole forming a pit; a pit-like hollow or cavity. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] dalea800 piteOE dike847 hollowc897 hole946 seathc950 delfOE hollc1050 ditchc1275 lakec1320 holetc1380 slacka1500 dell1531 vault1535 pit-hole1583 delve1590 lough1672 sinusa1676 gap1696 self-lough1700 scoop1780 cup1819 1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 129 We will make a pitte hole, and there cast our nuttes. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 525 Buds sprouting forth vnder the concauity or pit-hole of the foresaid ioints. a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Faire Maide of Inne ii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Eeeeeee4/1 I have knowne a Lady sicke of the small Pockers, onely to keepe her face from Pitholes, take cold, strike them in againe, kick up the heeles, and vanish. 1693 T. P. Blount Nat. Hist. 293 Full of little Pit-Holes, like the Cap of a Thimble. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xvi. 243 A black bog..full of large pit-holes . View more context for this quotation 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone III. vi. 99 There was just room between the fringe of reed and the belt of rock around it for a man going very carefully to escape that horrible pit-hole. 1946 J. W. Day Harvest Adventure iv. 49 The next stand was on the brow of the carrot field with a pit-hole in front, hidden by gorse and old, rooty heather. 1978 K. Acker Blood & Guts in High School 52 This world is a pit-hole and a garbage dump. 2003 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 6 June 8 When you are walking around you find lots of pit holes. This is so dangerous for the disabled and blind alike. 2. A grave. Now English regional (Suffolk). ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] buriels854 througheOE burianOE graveOE lairc1000 lair-stowc1000 lich-restc1000 pitOE grass-bedOE buriness1175 earth housec1200 sepulchrec1200 tombc1300 lakec1320 buriala1325 monumenta1325 burying-place1382 resting placea1387 sepulturea1387 beda1400 earth-beda1400 longhousea1400 laystow1452 lying1480 delfa1500 worms' kitchen?a1500 bier1513 laystall1527 funeral?a1534 lay-bed1541 restall1557 cellarc1560 burying-grave1599 pit-hole1602 urn1607 cell1609 hearse1610 polyandrum1627 requietory1631 burial-place1633 mortuary1654 narrow cell1686 ground-sweat1699 sacred place1728 narrow house1792 plot1852 narrow bed1854 1602 T. Dekker Blurt Master-Constable sig. E2v That's your way, and this Pit-hole's mine; if I can scape hence, why so; if not, hee that's hang'd. is neerer to heauen by halfe a score steps then hee that dyes in a bed. a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Changeling (1653) iv. sig. F2v Alexander, that thought the world Too narrow for him, in the end had but his pit-hole. 1716 G. Duckett Homerides 31 By eating of bad Vittals, Our Men were daily put in Pit-holes. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 395 It is common to fright children into taking of their physic by telling them that else they must be put into the pit hole. 1892 Parry Story of Dick vi. 66 in G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. (1893) 119 They lies, the two on 'em, the fourth and fifth i' the second row, for I dug pit-holes for 'em. 1896 G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-bk. (at cited word) Baby's dead, and gone in the pit-hole. 1960 A. O. D. Claxton Suffolk Dial. 20th Cent. (ed. 2) 61 Pithole, the grave, especially used by or to children. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † pit-holev. Obsolete. transitive. To bury (a person). ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > bury or entomb [verb (transitive)] bedelveOE begraveOE burya1000 beburyc1000 bifel-ec1000 layc1000 to fall, lull, lay (bring obs.) asleepOE tombc1275 gravec1300 inter1303 rekec1330 to lap in leadc1340 to lay to rest, abed, to bed1340 lie1387 to louk in clay (lead, etc.)?a1400 to lay lowa1425 earthc1450 sepulture1490 to put awaya1500 tyrea1500 mould1530 to graith in the grave1535 ingrave1535 intumulate1535 sepult1544 intumil?c1550 yird1562 shrinea1566 infera1575 entomb1576 sepelite1577 shroud1577 funeral1578 to load with earth1578 delve1587 to lay up1591 sepulchrize1595 pit-hole1607 infuneral1610 mool1610 inhumate1612 inurna1616 inhume1616 pit1621 tumulate1623 sepulchrea1626 turf1628 underlay1639 urna1657 to lay to sleep, asleep1701 envaulta1745 plant1785 ensepulchre1820 sheugh1839 to put under1879 to lay away1885 1607 ‘W. S.’ Puritaine i. B j b All my friends were pitt~hold, gone to Graues. 1611 G. Chapman May-day iii. 43 I would see her pithole [d] , afore I would deale with her. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1583v.1607 |
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