| 单词 | to eat stick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto eat stick d. †to eat iron, a sword: to be stabbed (obsolete). to eat stick: to be beaten. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > beat or flog [verb (intransitive)] > be beaten to drink or lick (up) on the whipa1500 to lick of the whipa1500 to have it1599 vapulate1783 to eat stick1862 to get laldy1889 ?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. B.i The horesone shall ete hym [i.e. the dagger] as fer as he shyll wade. 1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iv. ix. 28 Ile make thee eate yron like an Astridge. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 131 Undertakes to make the Turk eat cold Iron. 1862 W. M. Thomson Land & Bk. 319 I frequently hear them say of one who has been bastinadoed on the soles of his feet, that he has eaten fifty or five hundred sticks. 1865 Spectator 4 Feb. 122 The uncivilized freedom in which they could do as they liked, ‘eating stick’ included. < as lemmas |
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