单词 | rechain |
释义 | rechainv. transitive. To chain again (literal and figurative). ΚΠ a1711 T. Ken Wks. (1721) I. 171 He their malicious Tyranny restrain'd, And orders gave they shou'd be all rechain'd. 1831 Times 13 Oct. 3/2 They undervalued the resentment of the people. They ought first to have rechained them. 1861 H. A. Jacobs Incidents Life Slave Girl iv. 37 This piece of indecorum was told to his master, and the overseer was ordered to re-chain him. 1931 Times 13 June 13/6 No book, however old or valuable, should be rechained unless it bore on its cover the scars of its original chaining. 1979 G. Aggeler Anthony Burgess viii. 226 The pounding of the hammers that will rechain Prometheus to another rock. 1992 Isis 83 23 There would have been no rechaining your ferocious spirit of domination. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1711 |
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