| 单词 | billy club |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbilly club b. a highwayman's club; a bludgeon; also (U.S.), a policeman's truncheon; see also quot. 1848; also billy club. Cf. uses of Betty n., Jack n.2, jemmy n., jenny n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun] sowelc893 treec893 cudgelc897 stinga900 bat?c1225 sticka1275 clubc1275 truncheon14.. bourdonc1325 bastona1400 warderera1400 plantc1400 kibble1411 playloomc1440 hurlbatc1450 ploykc1450 rung1491 libberlac1500 waster1533 batonc1550 macana1555 libbet1562 bastinado1574 crab-tree comb1593 tomahawkc1612 billeta1616 wiper1622 batoon1637 gibbeta1640 crab-bat1647 kibbo1688 Indian club1694 batterdasher1696 crab-stick1703 bloodwipea1705 bludgeon1730 kierie1731 oaken towel1739 crab1740 shillelagh1772 knobstick1783 pogamogganc1788 whirlbat1791 nulla-nulla1798 waddy1800 kevel1807 supple1815 mere1820 hurlet1825 knobkerrie1826 blackthorn1829 bastera1833 twig1842 leangle1845 alpeen1847 banger1849 billy1856 thwack-stave1857 clump1868 cosh1869 nulla1878 sap1899 waddy1899 blunt instrument1923 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun] > constable's or watchman's pestlea1500 baton?1590 locust club1850 locust1857 locust stick1859 nightclub1882 nightstick1887 billy1889 1795 Edinb. Advertiser 6 Jan. 15/1 Five common carding engines..four pickers, four roving billies, twenty-one spinning jeannies. 1848 ‘N. Buntline’ Mysteries & Miseries N.Y. iv. 49 The foremost villain..broke down her guard with a short iron crowbar, or ‘billy’ as the burglars term it. 1856 Santa Barbara (Calif.) Gaz. 14 Feb. 2/5 He was knocked down by a blow from a ‘billy’. 1865 Times 28 Apr. The man struck Mr. Seward on the head with a billy. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 1165 The slubbing machine, or billy. 1889 Weekly Scotsman 21 Sept. 3/5 He was felled by Marshal Glade's billy, which stunned him. 1903 N.Y. Times 11 Sept. 1/5 Eight men..set upon [a] Policeman..this morning,..taking his revolver and billy away from him. 1931 L. Steffens Autobiogr. I. ii. v. 214 I felt the ache they [sc. policemen] conveyed to rap some head with the handy little billy. 1949 Amer. Speech 24 262 By 1859 the billy club was demanding order in American cities. 1967 M. Procter Exercise Hoodwink ix. 67 Lying in the other bunk was a shark club or ‘billy’. 1967 M. Procter Exercise Hoodwink ix. 67 He had not taken his shark billy. 1969 Listener 3 July 11/2 He thought it necessary, this pig, this racist, to take his billy club out and crush her skull. < as lemmas |
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