| 单词 | to heel! |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto heel! (c) to heel!: used as a command to a dog to follow closely behind an accompanying person. Cf. sense B. ΚΠ 1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. xiii. 288 Come in Ban! To heel, good dog. 1878 A. Marryat Left to Themselves iv. 60 George looked vexed. ‘Here, Pincher,’ he cried, ‘to heel, sir!’ 1924 Amer. Mercury Sept. 116/2 There were oldtimers who learned what ‘yoicks’ meant and that the proper address to a well-bred dog is ‘To heel!’. 1965 H. Davies Here we go, round Mulberry Bush xv. 174 To heel, boy. Sit still. Some old tramp's trousers. Sit still, boy. Damn you. 2014 T. Tomlinson Better than Gold xiv. 112 ‘To heel, to heel,’ Egfrid cried desperately. Reluctantly the hound returned to him. < as lemmas |
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