| 单词 | bone-polisher |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbone-polisher ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > one who scourges or whips whipper1552 jerker1565 scourger1580 lasher1611 firkera1626 whipster1670 yarker1677 bone-polisher1803 horsewhipper1808 flagellator1824 thong-man1876 sjambokker1953 society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whip or scourge > cat-o'-nine-tails cat-o'-nine-tails1695 cat1788 bone-polisher1803 thieves' cat1867 martinet1881 bush1895 1803 J. Davis Trav. U.S.A. x. 431 I your superior officer. Put a handle to my name when you speak to me, you bone-polisher. 1859 Colburn's United Service Mag. June 198 I and my boatswain don't hit it off very well, for I can't see that a bit of lace can turn a bone-polisher into my superior officer. 1877 Sunday Mag. 6 185/1 As a bone-polisher we have rarely met the equal of the elder boy. 1882 Sailor's Mag. July 198/1 I was promoted to his rather unenviable position of ‘bone polisher’, by which term the officer who dines upon what the captain and mate may have left used to be designated. 1919 W. S. Hart Golden West Boys vii. 69 We had a feller here who was some strong as a table-finisher an' bone-polisher, an' we issed a challenge to eat him agin any man in the West. < as lemmas |
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