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单词 bensel
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benseln.

Forms: Also bensell, bensall, bensail, bensil, bent-sail.
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse benzla.
Etymology: < Old Norse benzla (or benzl Vigfusson) bending, bent, tension, < benda to bend (a bow). The spelling bent-sail is merely conjectural. With quot. a1658 compare Icelandic taka boga af benzlum to take a bow out of bensel.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbensel.
Scottish and northern dialect.
Bending, tension, spring (of mental faculties); strong bent or determination; impetus (of a body in motion).
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the world > movement > [noun] > force of movement
coursec1330
swough1338
swayc1374
birra1382
feezec1405
impetc1440
radeur1477
ravina1500
sweight1513
bensela1522
swinge1583
impetus1656
motive power1702
impulse1715
momentum1740
impulsion1795
send1890
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. xii. 37 Ourweltit with the bensell of the ayris [=oars].
1648 R. Baillie Let. 23 Aug. (1842) III. 59 I found the bent-saile of the spirits of some so much on the Engagement.
a1658 J. Durham Dying Man's Test. (1659) 79 Men weary..for our spirits are soon out of bensall.
1734 A. Welwood Glimpse Glory ix. 192 Surely, if you be partakers of his [God's] nature, you cannot but bend to him with a strong Bensil.
1807 J. Stagg Misc. Poems (new ed.) 61 A hangrell gang Com with a bensil owr the sea.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

benselv.

Forms: Also bansel.
Etymology: probably < bensel n., in sense of ‘impetus.’Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbensel.
dialect.
transitive. To drive, knock (about); to bang, beat.
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1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 6 Bensel, to bang or beat.
1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ 8 Warmed her jerkin wi' a sound switching, an bensill'd her purely. Northampton & Staffordsh. dial., The child never rests: it is always being banselled about for something.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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