单词 | stumbler |
释义 | stumblern. 1. One who, or something which stumbles; esp. a horse that is given to stumbling. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > stumbling > one who stumblerc1440 tripper1806 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 481/1 Stumlere (or stomelare) cespitator. 1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. C.iv Stumble at a strawe, and leape ouer a blocke, Such stumblers are blockheads. 1613 N. Breton Vncasing Machiuils Instr. 26 Riding a stumbler hold fast the bridle. 1633 G. Herbert Church Porch in Temple xxxvi A stumbler stumbles least in rugged way. 1796 S. T. Coleridge To Infant 5 Poor stumbler on the rocky coast of Woe. 1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings II. liv. 124 The horses were all sad stumblers. 1894 G. Meredith Foresight & Patience in Poet. Wks. (1912) 418 Yet, happy for us when, their cause defined, They walk no longer with a stumbler blind. 2. A cause of stumbling; a ‘poser’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > that which is difficult > a difficult problem knotc1000 a bone to pick (also gnaw)c1450 dark, hard sentence1535 nut1540 Gordian knot1579 nodus1728 teaser1759 stumper1807 Chinese puzzlec1815 facer1828 sticker1849 grueller1856 stumbler1863 twister1879 1863 P. Davidson Pentateuch Vindic. ii. 33 Here was a stumbler for the priests and a marrowbone for the infidels. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1440 |
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