| 单词 | to break for tall timber |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto break (strike, etc.) for (the) tall timber e. tall timber (North American), uninhabited forest. Usually in to break (strike, etc.) for (the) tall timber; also transferred, to run away, escape. Hence tall-timbered adj. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > run away or flee fleec825 afleeeOE atrina1000 atfleec1000 to run awayOE to turn to or into flighta1225 to turn the ridgec1225 atrenc1275 atshakec1275 to give backa1300 flemec1300 startc1330 to take (on oneself) the flighta1500 to take the back upon oneselfa1500 fly1523 to take (also betake) (oneself) to one's legs1530 to flee one's way1535 to take to one's heels1548 flought?1567 fuge1573 to turn taila1586 to run off1628 to take flighta1639 refugea1641 to run for it1642 to take leg1740 to give (also take) leg-bail1751 bail1775 sherry1788 to pull foot1792 fugitate1830 to tail off (out)1830 to take to flight1840 to break (strike, etc.) for (the) tall timber1845 guy1879 to give leg (or legs)1883 rabbit1887 to do a guy1889 high-tail1908 to have it on one's toes1958 the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of ripplelOE wildwooda1122 rough1332 firth?a1400 tod stripec1446 osiard1509 bush1523 bush-ground1523 fritha1552 island1638 oak landc1658 pinelandc1658 piney wood1666 broom-land1707 pine barrenc1721 pine savannah1735 savannah1735 thick woods1754 scrub-land1779 olive wood1783 primeval forest1789 open wood1790 strong woods1792 scrub1805 oak flata1816 sertão1816 sprout-land1824 flatwoods1841 bush-land1842 tall timber1845 amber forest1846 caatinga1846 mahogany scrub1846 bush-flat1847 myall country1847 national forest1848 selva1849 monte1851 virgin forest1851 bush-country1855 savannah forest1874 bush-range1879 bushveld1879 protection forest1889 mulga1896 wood-bush1896 shinnery1901 fringing forest1903 monsoon forest1903 rainforest1903 savannah woodland1903 thorn forest1903 tropical rainforest1903 gallery forest1920 cloud forest1922 rain jungle1945 mato1968 1831 Boston Transcript 24 June 2/4 Why didn't Van just go and tell the old man he wanted to break for high timber?] 1845 St. Louis Reveille 22 Jan. 1/6 Knowing the direction of the trees that stood in the grove, I ‘broke for the tall timber’. 1877 J. M. Beard K.K.K. Sketches 166 The panic-stricken darkies broke across the landscape with a yearning desire for tall timber that was eloquently depicted on every motion of the supple limbs. 1904 S. E. White Blazed Trail Stories i. 5 This little town will scratch fer th' tall timber..when the boys goes in to take her apart. 1914 D. W. Roberts Rangers & Sovereignty 128 The ‘bad men’..began to strike for ‘tall timber’. 1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 22 Mar. 13/1 The northern correspondent of The Colonist has just emerged from the tall timber, where he has been living under canvas for the past two years. 1949 Skyline Trail Oct. 18/1 I fell off three times; finally the disgusted critter took to the tall timber, leaving me to hike onward and to get across the frigid stream as best I could. 1966 Times 28 Feb. (Canada Suppl.) p. ii Canada is a tall-timbered..rod-and-gun of a country. < as lemmas |
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