| 单词 | riding stick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasriding stick riding stick n. (a) a stick which a child pretends to ride as if it were a horse; a hobby horse, or the stick of a hobby horse; (b) a stick or switch used by a rider to urge a horse to move faster. ΚΠ 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Bíscheri Also a childs hobby horse or riding sticke. 1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §25. 227 It appeareth that that which is here translated a rod, was not a wand, (as some would have it) or a riding stick: such rods are not to be leaned upon. 1788 P. Thicknesse Mem. & Anecd. I. viii. 146 I had only a sword, and a small riding stick. 1829 Amer. Jrnl. Educ. 4 460 Little girls must have their dolls, and little boys their riding sticks. 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. i. viii. 143 The farmyard gate, which he..attempted to push open with his riding-stick. 1911 ‘B. L. Putman Weale’ Unknown God ii. xi. 467 The horseman,..bringing his thick riding-stick repeatedly down on the animal's flanks, started his violent progress once more. 1994 Times (Nexis) 22 Oct. She hit me on the head with the end of her riding stick. 2008 N. Dawidoff Crowd sounds Happy ii. 16 Ankles no wider in circumference than the riding stick of my hobby horse. < as lemmas |
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