| 单词 | rugging and reaving |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrugging and reaving (also riving) The action of pulling or tugging; robbery, plunder, pillage. Frequently in rugging and reaving (also riving). Cf. to rug and reave at rug v.1 3, to rug and rive at rug v.1 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > seizing > [noun] nomea1300 arrestc1386 seizingc1400 rugging1507 rapping1541 grasping1546 seizement1581 expropriation1626 possessionc1693 grabbing1788 grab1835 the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [noun] > pulling > pulling forcibly tugging?a1500 rugging1507 1507 Edinb. Burgh Court Bk. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue f. 38, at Rugin In the ruggin of his haire furth of his hed. 1581 N. Burne in Catholic Tractates (S.T.S.) 167 Be rugging doun of kirkis, be spuleying of Abbayis. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 187 Trubling the west seyes in thift, ruging, and reiueng. c1600 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) II. 273 Thair was nathing bot rwgging and raveing of the puir laubouraris. c1605–6 J. Welsh Forty-eight Sel. Serm. (1771) 476 All this..rugging and separation of the soul and body from the presence of God. 1644 in J. I. Smith Sel. Justiciary Cases (1974) III. 642 Being in excessive feir with that villent rugging..he cryed out. 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xix. 297 The gude auld times of rugging and riving..are come back again. View more context for this quotation 1814 C. I. Johnstone Saxon & Gaël I. 153 The craving or rugging at the heart, i.e., hunger, is a disease but too frequent among the Highlanders. 1836 W. Arnot Autobiogr. (1877) 107 I do feel a tearing, rugging process going on. 1846 G. S. Faber Lett. Tractarian Secession Popery 51 In the midst of this awful rugging and riving [etc.]. 1867 E. Watts Orchard & Fruit Garden iv. 21 Each graft should be supported by a stake, or the rugging of the wind may loose them. 1920 A. Murray Father Allan's Island 50 The rugging and riving of the winds. < as lemmas |
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