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单词 to hold way
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to hold way
(c) to hold way: to maintain the same pace or rate of progress; to keep up with; = to keep (also †hold) pace at pace n.1 Phrases 1a. Also with indirect object rather than with. Obsolete.
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1554 J. Proctor Hist. Wyates Rebellion sig. D.viv The lord Aburgaueny, the shyreffe, and the rest of the gentlemen,..as with great paynes takinge to clyme the hyll, and to holde waye with the horsemen, ouertoke the rebelles.
1630 E. Cobbes Worldlings Looking Glasse Ep. Ded. sig. A5v I am not able to hold way with such strong & able laborers as you are, nor worthy to be accounted in the number of good workmen.
1662 T. Allin Jrnl. 17 May (1939) (modernized text) I. 81 The Norwich had much ado to hold us way.
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 1 [It] flies so far, that no Bird..but a Woodcock, can hold way with it.
1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World i. 2 I did not doubt but that I should be able to hold him way.
1868 Rowing Cal. & Aquatic Reg. 1867 36 Sadler held way with Cooper for a couple of hundred yards.
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