| 单词 | the shoemaker's stocks |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe shoemaker's stocks e. transferred (a) the shoemaker's stocks (jocularly): Tight boots. (b) Applied to certain callisthenic contrivances formerly used in girls' schools. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun] > other > boots the shoemaker's stocks1666 kinkies1965 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [noun] > equipment > others trochus1706 troque1743 chamber horse1747 dumb-bell1785 stock1831 rowing machine1848 chest-expander1850 weights1862 stationary bicycle1883 punching bag1888 medicine ball1895 punching ball1895 stationary bike1899 kettlebell1908 rower1933 Exercycle1936 exercise bicycle1937 exercise bike1946 exercise cycle1952 roller1970 life cycle1973 multi-gym1976 gut-buster1983 roller1992 1666 S. Pepys Diary 22 Apr. (1972) VII. 107 Being in the shoemaker's stocks, I was heartily weary. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Shoe-makers-stocks, pincht with strait Shoes. 1824 G. Kennedy Anna Ross 47 Her poor little feet were placed in stocks, because her Mamma said she turned her toes in when she walked. 1831 E. Sandford Woman in her Social & Domestic Char. x. 129 The modern school-room..might pass in succeeding centuries for a refined inquisition. There would be found stocks for the fingers, and pulleys for the neck, [etc.]. 1880 J. F. South Househ. Surg. (ed. 4) 331 I do not know whether that miserable invention, the stocks, is still in existence. < as lemmas |
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