| 单词 | port-hound |
| 释义 | > as lemmasport-hound C1. General attributive, as † port-dog, † port highway, † port-hound, † port-wall, † port woman, etc. See also portman n.1, portmoot n., portreeve n., and port-way n.1 ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > defined by actions or habitat port-dogOE port-houndOE cochour14.. water dogc1400 sheep-biter1548 holdfast1600 devil dog1642 land-dog1665 junkyard dog1936 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > highway or public road headwayOE high streetOE wayOE port highwayOE port-streetOE port-wayOE highway1257 high gate1324 thoroughfare1540 open road1656 rum pad1665 country road1669 toby lay1807 high toby spice1811 throughgang1856 OE Seven Sleepers (Julius) (1994) 35 And ða heafodleasan man hengc on ða portweallas, and man sette heora heafda swilce oþra ðeofa buton ðam portweallon on ðam heafodstoccum. c1300 St. Michael (Laud) 267 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 307 (MED) He [sc. the devil] fierde ase doth a port-doggue [a1325 Corpus Cambr. port dogge] I-norischet in port-toun [a1325 Corpus Cambr. portoun], for he geth ofte in prece of Men a-mong heom op and doun. c1300 St. Michael (Laud) 274 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 307 Non more þane þe port-hound [a1325 Corpus Cambr. port hond] þat neiȝ men geth I-nouȝ. 1454 in E. W. W. Veale Great Red Bk. Bristol: Text Pt. II (1938) 50 (MED) The seid Chamburleynes admitte no man nor woman to be Portman ne Portwoman, butt oonly to selle breed and ale and nott to be Free of eny othour thinge. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. vi. xxviii. 140 At this towne [sc. Petra] meet both the port high waies [L. convenit utrumque bivium, Fr. se rapportent deux grans chemins], to wit, the one which passengers travell to Palmyra in Syria, and the other, wherein they goe from Gaza. < as lemmas |
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