单词 | rum pad |
释义 | rum padn.ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > highway or public road headwayOE high streetOE wayOE port highwayOE port-streetOE port-wayOE highway1257 high gate1324 thoroughfare1540 open road1656 rum pad1665 country road1669 toby lay1807 high toby spice1811 throughgang1856 1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. iv. 34 Rom-pad, The High-way. 1688 J. Shirley Triumph of Wit 224 By the Rum-pad maundeth none,..Like my Clapperdogeon. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Rum pad, the highway. 1819 T. Moore Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress 76 The brandy and tea, rather thinnish, That Knights of the Rumpad so rurally sip. 2. A robber, a highwayman. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > [noun] > highwayman routerc1300 malandryna1438 stradarolle1562 highpad1567 highway robber1577 way-beatera1586 lance-man1589 high lawyer1591 St. Nicholas' clerk1598 outrider1599 bidstand1600 land-pirate1608 highwayman1617 pad1652 knight of the road1665 rum-padder1665 paddist1671 rum pad1688 pad-thief1690 gentleman (also squire) of the pad1700 snaffler1728 gentleman1778 scamp1782 scampsman1799 bandolero1832 ladrone1832 Spring-heeled Jack1838 road agent1840 agent1876 1688 J. Shirley Triumph of Wit 215 A Highway-man, Rum pad. 1897 C. Whibley Bk. Scoundrels 61 The Bear Garden, always her favourite resort, had made her acquainted with all the divers and rumpads of the town. 1918 W. L. George Novelist on Novels 112 It is a world of fighting, and of riding, of blood, of excisemen, of the ‘rum pads’ and their mistresses, their dicing and their death. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1665 |
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