| 单词 | bought-wise |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbought-wise a. The bend or loop of a rope, string, or chain; the part between the ends or points of attachment (cf. bight n. 3); the fold of a cloth, etc.; a turn or involution; also figurative, and in combinations as bought-wise. ΘΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun] > annular quality > ring > loop > of rope, chain, or cloth hank1388 linkc1450 boughta1475 eye1584 bight1622 loop1718 ropemaker's eye1854 α. β. 1562 Inv. Q. Mary's Dresses in Sat. Rev. (1863) 12 Dec. 764/2 [Fardingales..expanded by whalebones] bowtis of quhaill horne.1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. ii. 278 Let it be tyed first with ij. inuolutions or bowtes.1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 36 In notes, with many a winding bout Of lincked sweetnes long drawn out.a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 79 One Curle rising by degrees aboue another and euery Bout tyed Vp with a small Reband.a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 129 Draw streight þy clothe, & ley þe bouȝt on þe vttur egge of þe table. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Rivv/2 A Bought, plica. 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Sam. xxv. 29 (margin) In the midst of the bought of a sling. 1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) vii. xliv. 712 Net..fastened bought-wise vnto the end of a long pole. 1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. xv. 262 Forty-five or fifty fathoms of tows constitute a bught. < as lemmas |
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