单词 | boot hill |
释义 | > as lemmasBoot Hill Boot Hill n. U.S. a graveyard or cemetery (originally jocular of a frontier cemetery, in allusion to its occupants' dying with their boots on); frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > burial ground or cemetery > [noun] littenc900 charnel1377 burying-place1382 fosse?a1425 churchyard1477 golgotha1604 God's acre1605 cemetery1613 burial-place1633 dormitory1634 burying-ground1711 burial-field1743 graveyard1767 burial-ground1803 burial-yard1842 boneyard1866 Boot Hill1901 necropole1921 memorial park1927 grave-site1953 the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > burial ground or cemetery > [adjective] > frontier Boot Hill1901 1886 Outing Jan. 398/2 Within the rail fence of ‘Boot-heel Cemetery’, at Flagstaff, my stopping-place, there were fourteen graves.] 1901 Everybody's Mag. June 582/2 Occasionally his six-shooter brought order and a new grave or two in Boot Hill cemetery. 1930 E. Ferber Cimarron 160 The body..was interred in Boot Hill, with only the prowling jackals to mourn him. 1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 11/2 Boot hill, prison cemetery. 1948 Southern Sierran (Los Angeles) May 2/3 The rest of us took Wednesday for an auto trip..through Tombstone of the one and only Boothill Cemetery. 1962 Times 12 Apr. 7/3 There's an old saying that every boothill is ‘full of fellers that pulled their triggers before aimin'’. 1971 J. H. Gray Red Lights on Prairies i. 2 A poor town that could not boast of its local bad men or boothill cemetery. < as lemmas |
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