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单词 to hold or keep short
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to hold or keep (a person) short
b. to hold or keep (a person) short [= French tenir court] : to press (him) hard in a contest; to keep rigidly confined or under strict discipline; to keep from something; in later use, to keep (a horse) tightly reined in. Obsolete.
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the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > keep ill-supplied
to hold or keep (a person) shortc1425
strait1513
scant1565
starve1570
scantle1581
shorten1599
scant1600
scant1607
short1620
straiten1627
famish1667
limit1670
scrimp1691
under-furnish1694
stint1722
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restrain [verb (transitive)] > hold in check
bridleOE
tempera1050
chastec1230
to hold inc1300
straina1340
stintc1366
attemperc1380
restraina1387
rulea1391
ward1390
coarctc1400
obtemper?a1425
to hold or keep (a person) shortc1425
compesce1430
stent1488
coactc1520
repressa1525
compress1526
control1548
snaffle1555
temperatea1568
brank1574
halter1577
curb1588
shortena1599
to bear (a rein) upon1603
check1629
coerceate1657
bit1825
throttle1862
hold1901
society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > control with reins > keep tightly reined in
to hold or keep (a person) short1792
c1425 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 1307 ‘Kepe hym short’, he seyde, ‘tyll hys lust be spent.’
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur ix. xxx. 385 And euer sir tristram held them passynge shorte, and euer sir Bleoberys was passynge besy vpon syre Tristram.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 597/2 Lette men holde hym very shorte... If youth be nat kepte shorte it wyll be marred anone.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Cohibeo..to keepe shorte.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 12 The king helde them so short, that in processe of tyme they were faine to yelde.
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) 131 b They perswade themselues, that if they doe not keepe them [their wives] short, they keep them not as they ought to doe.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique Table, sig. Mmm 7/2 Girles must be kept short.
1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 77 The time shall come wherein ye shall bee held short of all worldly comforts.
1669 J. Flavell Husbandry Spiritualized iii. iv. 216 Oxen for use are daily yoaked and kept short, whilst those that are designed for the shambles, are let loose in green pastures.
1792 W. Osbaldiston Brit. Sportsman 416 When your horse attempts to be vicious..hold him very short.
extracted from shortadj.n.adv.
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