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单词 theat
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theatn.

Brit. /θiːt/, U.S. /θit/, Scottish English /θit/
Forms: Also Middle English–1800s thete, 1500s theatt, ( tyghte), 1700s–1800s theet.
Etymology: Etymology obscure: derivation < Old Norse þétt-r tight, has been suggested; compare tyght in quot. 1573 at sense a.
Scottish.
a. plural. ‘The ropes or traces, by means of which horses draw in a carriage, plough, or harrow’ (Jamieson): now chiefly of the plough.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > traces
tracec1350
side rope1370
wain-rope1371
trace14..
soam1404
pintrace1440
side-trace1445
wain-string1464
theats1496
treat1611
trek-tow1822
trace-chain1844
tug-strap1882
trek-rope1883
trace-rope1900
1496 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 293 Item, for xiij stane and a pund of towis to be thetis.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. ix. 77 The renis and the thetis, Quharwyth hys stedis ȝokkit war in thretis.
1573 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1861) III. 61 Twoo payre of tyghtes or trases for horses wth withes of iren.]
1599 Aberdeen Regr. (1848) II. 183 Cutting with his knyff the theattis of the said pleucht.
1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. IV. 395 The rashen theets [are supplanted] by the iron traces.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 694 The sort of harness with which he is first invested is that of the plough, consisting of a bridle, collar,..and back-band and chains, or theats, as these are called in some parts of the country.
b. In figurative and allusive expressions: cf. traces. out of theats (also out of theet), out of bounds: see quot. 1710, and cf. ‘to kick over the traces’ (kick v.1 1c).
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society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > [adjective] > going astray
scrithingOE
sinister1526
aberrantc1536
strayed1544
straying1553
exorbitant1556
erroneous1595
wandering1606
devious1633
theat1682
1682 Peden in Life & Proph. (1868) 13 Good Lord, cut their theets, that their swingle-trees may fall to the ground.
1710 T. Ruddiman in G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneis (new ed.) Gloss. at Thetis Ye are out of theet, i.e. ye are extravagant or in the wrong.
a1732 T. Boston Memoirs (1776) v. 51 They were going to call a new upstart, one that broke the thetes.
1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb ii. 17 Keep baith laird an' tenan' straucht i' the theets.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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