单词 | to clash quills |
释义 | > as lemmasto clash quills 2. transitive. To strike (things) together with this noise. †to clash quills: to wage a war of controversy with the pen. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > contend, dispute [phrase] to enter (the) lists1592 to clash quills1686 the world > movement > impact > impinge upon [verb (transitive)] > cause to impinge > bring into collision > with noise crush1398 clash1686 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > cause sudden or violent sound [verb (transitive)] > of impact or concussion > crash, clash, or smash crush1398 scrash1640 clash1686 1686 Amicable Accommodation 2 Being so near of a mind, we have yet been so long clashing Quills, as Adversaries. 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite iii, in Fables 62 At length the nodding Statue clash'd his Arms. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 193. ⁋5 I can clash Swords when they represent a Battel. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 426 The ordinary freeman can no longer come in person to clash his arms, and raise his shout of ‘Yea, yea,’ or ‘Nay, nay’. < as lemmas |
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