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单词 repple
释义

repplen.

Forms: Old English repel, early Middle English repples (plural), 1700s–1800s repple.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: ripple n.1
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps originally the same word as ripple n.1 (compare forms at that entry). Compare Norwegian (Nynorsk) ripel, repel stake, small tree-stem, tall thin person, Swedish regional ripil miserable person, poor wretch.
Obsolete. rare. (English regional (north-west midlands) in later use).
A long staff or cudgel.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun] > pole or staff
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OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Hatton) (1900) i. ii. 20 Forþam þe he næfde nænne repel hine mid to þersceanne [OE Corpus Cambr. gyrde; L. virgam], þa gelæhte he þone fotscamul.
a1225 (?OE) MS Vesp. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 231 (MED) Gief he fend were, me sceolden anon eter gat ȝemete mid gode repples and stiarne swepen.
a1728 W. Kennett Etymol. Coll. Eng. Words & Provinc. Expressions (MS BL Lansdowne 1033) f. 338v Reppo or Repple, a Long walking staff carried by Countrymen that reaches up to or above their head.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Repple, a long walking staff as tall or taller than the bearer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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