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单词 to carry double
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to carry double
P7. to carry double: (of a horse) to carry two people.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [verb (intransitive)] > carry pillion
to carry double1637
1637 J. Shirley Young Admirall v. sig. K2v Pag. Get but a brave horse—Paz. That would carry double, and I might bring home the Princesse behind me to the Campe.
1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. 206 The next thing to be done was to get two horses for the ladies, for mine were not able to carry double any further.
1839 New Monthly Mag. June 260 Not a syllable is to be found in that warranty as to the capability of the horse Pickle carrying double.
1901 Munsey's Mag. Jan. 484/1 It ain't the first time the pelter's carried double.
2013 R. J. Gossett My Five Sons xxiii. 209 His horse was on the verge of collapse from carrying double at a fast gallop.
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to carry double
c. In a pair or couple; two together, two at once; as in to ride double, i.e. two on one horse. So of a horse, etc., to carry double.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > ride with two on one horse
to ride double1599
to ride in tie1908
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 51 As this host of fethermungers were getting vp to ride double.
1614 T. Overbury et al. Characters in Wife now Widdow sig. F2v He neuer drinkes but double, for hee must be pledg'd.
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. i. 33 Marriage is but a Beast, some say, That carries double in foul way.
a1816 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal (rev. ed.) ii. i, in Wks. (1821) II. 39 Content to ride double, behind the butler.
1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I cxl. 73 To prove her mistress had been sleeping double.
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