单词 | slip-knot |
释义 | slip-knotn. 1. a. A knot which may readily be slipped or untied. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > knot > slip-knot riding knotc1330 slipping knota1425 fisher's-knot1611 snittle1611 slip-knot1659 inside clinch1886 1659 G. Torriano Florio's Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese Cáppio, a slipknot that may be untied. 1710 J. St. Leger Manager's Pro & Con 40 They labour to make the Crown hang upon Her Head, only by that Slipknot of Hereditary Right. 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. x. 29 Knots,—by which..I would not be understood to mean slip-knots. b. A knot so constructed as to slip along the cord or line round which it is made; a running knot; also, a noose. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > knot > other knots water knot1496 draw knot1635 slip-knot1679 tie-knot1800 timber-hitch1815 thorough-put1829 fisherman's bendc1860 Celtic knot1865 lark's head1866 waterman's knot1866 packing knot1871 fisherman's knot1876 prusik knot1937 1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. vii. 126 They..fasten the rest of the Line there, upon the Line Rowl with a Slip-knot, that no more Line turn off. 1827 D. Johnson Sketches Indian Field Sports (ed. 2) 55 Elephants..are caught in Nepaul..by phauns (nooses made with slip knots). 1847 W. C. L. Martin Ox 166/1 By dexterous manipulation, the slip-knot of a cord may be fastened round each leg. 1888 Archaeol. Rev. Mar. 25 The youngest of these princesses is caught while bathing, by means of a magical slip-knot. 2. transferred. ΚΠ 1842 T. Moore Diary 14 Sept. in Mem. (1856) VII. 330 Had already formed a sort of slip-knot with Easthope to dine at his country house, but he had luckily put me off till to-morrow. 1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters v. 135 A free woman of the world,..retaining her virtue only by a slip-knot. 1888 Harper's Mag. July 320/2 Hasty marriages—slip-knots tied by one justice to be undone by another. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1659 |
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