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单词 to be let down
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to be let down
5. to be let down: (of the claws of a hound) to be in contact with the ground. Also, the sinew of a horse, = ‘to be broken down’ (see to break down 4 at break v. Phrasal verbs).
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1684 London Gaz. No. 1987/4 She is a pretty large Hound, very handsome, all her Claws are let down of one of her fore feet.
1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xlii. 576 If the Horse be, what the Jockies call, let down in the Sinew..such Horse can never be made so strong in that Part, but a hard Course, or Running a Race upon hard Ground will let him down again.
1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. vi. 271 When a Horse..is quite let down (as the Jockeys call it) the Tendon is quite broken.
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