| 单词 | staff-bearer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstaff-bearer (a) With participles, agent nouns, and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which staff expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in staff-bearing, staff-wielding (adjectives and nouns); staff-bearer, staff-holder, staff-maker, etc. Π in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Corporation of Beverley (1900) 99 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 284) XLVI. 513 String-makers et staf-makers [are to pay 2d. a year]. 1553 in A. J. Kempe Losely MSS (1836) 44 Touching the stafmaker..I wyll see hym contented. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Bastonnier, a staffe-bearer, or Vergier. 1880 L. d'A. Jackson Aid Surv.-pract. 98 The staff-holders must..be capable of holding the staff truly vertical. 1915 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 19 298 Two staff-bearing angels..stand on the mountain. 2002 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 11 June (Review section) 1 A profound respect for the staff-wielding on-screen wizards washes over me. < as lemmas |
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