单词 | rick-burning |
释义 | > as lemmasrick-burning rick-burning n. now historical the action of setting fire to ricks as a political protest; cf. rick-burner n. ΚΠ 1830 Tatler 11 Dec. 338/1 They take to rick-burning and machine-breaking. 1939 D. Cecil Young Melbourne viii. 206 The riotings and rick-burnings..roused his fear of revolution. 2002 Morning Star (Nexis) 25 Sept. 7 Our new-fangled rural rebels—the class which would hang the starving for rick-burning or loombreaking not so very long ago. < as lemmas |
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