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单词 to have the wall
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to have the wall
a. to give a person the wall: to allow a person the right or privilege of walking next the wall as the cleaner and safer side of a pavement, sidewalk, etc. Similarly, to have the wall, to take the wall (of a person), to have, take the inside position.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being better or superior > [verb (transitive)]
to go before ——OE
overlightlOE
preferc1395
precede1485
precess1529
to take the wall (of a person)?1562
outshine1605
to have the place1659
to take the road of1670
rank1841
society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > traverse on foot [verb (transitive)] > allow right or privilege of walking next to wall
to give a person the wall?1562
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > treat discourteously [verb (transitive)] > specifically by taking inside of pavement
to take the wall (of a person)?1562
the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use formal courtesy in act or expression [verb (intransitive)] > be allowed to walk next to wall
to take the wall (of a person)?1562
the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use courteous actions or expressions to [verb (transitive)] > allow (a person) to walk next to wall
to give a person the wall?1562
the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use courteous actions or expressions to [verb (transitive)] > allow (a person) to walk next to wall > walk nearer to wall than
to have the wall?1562
?1562 Thersytes sig. A.iv Yes yes god wote, they geve me the wall Or elles with my clubbe, I make them to fall.
1592 Arden of Feversham v. i I haue made some go vppon wodden legges for taking the wall on me.
1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 95 The Persians had a law enioyning all men..to giue him [an elder] the wall when they mett him in the streetes.
1671 tr. A. de Courtin Rules Civility iii. 17 To allow him the upper end of the Table or Chamber, and the Wall, as they walk in the Streets.
1773 J. Boswell Jrnl. 20 Sept. in Jrnl. Tour Hebrides (1785) 281 [ Johnson] said, that in the last age, when his mother lived in London, there were two sets of people, those who gave the wall, and those who took it; the peaceable and the quarrelsome... ‘Now,..it is fixed that every man keeps to the right; or, if one is taking the wall, another yields it, and it is never a dispute’.
1869 A. J. Munby Diary 24 Dec. in D. Hudson Munby (1972) vii. 278 ‘If a nigger didn't give me the wall, I'd knock him down as soon as look at him!’ Here we have the British Philistine.
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 76 b I weigh it little, that my equall, hauing the wall of me, should goe from it to giue me place.1605 T. Heywood If you know not Me E 1 b Enter the Englishman, and Spaniard. Spa. The wall, the wall. Eng. Sblood Spaniard you get no wall here,..but since you will needs Haue the wall, Ile take the paynes to thrust You into the kennell.1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xxv The Spaniards..had..no room, in that narrow path, to use their pikes. The English had the wall of them; and to have the wall there, was to have the foe's life at their mercy.1587 R. Greene Penelopes Web sig. F The wife of a poore Smith meeting the Empresse Faustina, tooke the wall of her in the streetes.1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 28 Nothing was more common with them then to fight about taking the right or left hand, or the wall.1757 S. Foote Author i. 8 He wou'd take the Wall of a Prince of the Blood.1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. iv. 77 To..quarrel in her cause with any flat-cap'd thread-maker that would take the wall of her.1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xxxiii. 277 The parlour window..is so close upon the footway that the passenger who takes the wall brushes the dim glass with his coat sleeve.
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