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单词 to lie by the heels
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to lie by the heels
b. to lay (also set, clap, etc.) (a person) by the heels: to put in irons or the stocks; to fetter, arrest, or confine. Similarly to have (a person) by the heels, to lie by the heels and variants. Also figurative.
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)]
at-holda1230
attacha1325
resta1325
takec1330
arrest1393
restay?a1400
tachec1400
seisinc1425
to take upa1438
stowc1450
seize1471
to lay (also set, clap, etc.) (a person) by the heels?1515
deprehend1532
apprehend1548
nipa1566
upsnatcha1566
finger1572
to make stay of1572
embarge1585
cap1590
reprehend1598
prehenda1605
embar1647
nap1665
nab1686
bone1699
roast1699
do1784
touch1785
pinch1789
to pull up1799
grab1800
nick1806
pull1811
hobble1819
nail1823
nipper1823
bag1824
lag1847
tap1859
snaffle1860
to put the collar on1865
copper1872
to take in1878
lumber1882
to pick up1887
to pull in1893
lift1923
drag1924
to knock off1926
to put the sleeve on1930
bust1940
pop1960
vamp1970
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > bind, fetter, or shackle [verb (transitive)] > by the feet or legs
gyvec1290
fetterc1300
hopshackle?a1513
to lay (also set, clap, etc.) (a person) by the heels?1515
to lay fast by the feet1560
garter1604
enfetter1611
heela1638
?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. B.iv I wyll go fetche a pair of gyues For in good faythe he shall besette fast by the heles.
a1555 N. Ridley in M. Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 54 Grimbolde was caught by the heele and cast into the marshalsee, but now is at liberty agayne.
1578 T. Blenerhasset 2nd Pt. Mirrour for Magistrates f. 28v Hateful Mishappe she had me by the heele, And clapte me close in dungeon of Decay.
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft iii. xv. 65 One of Q. Maries iustices..laid an archer by the heeles.
1606 J. Rawlinson Foure Summons of Shulamite 75 Downe with it, even to the ground..& lay them fast by the heels.
1651 J. Lilburne Humble Addr. 9 For which affronting contempts..he ought in law, equity, and justice, rather be clapt by the heels then to bee heard by you.
1700 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 638 The lord cheif justice..will lay the undersherif by the heels.
1757 E. Perronet Mitre (new ed.) ii. 83 Then with a voice as harsh as brass, Cries—‘lay him by the heels’.
1781 F. Burney Jrnl. Aug. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2003) IV. 455 I supposed you would have finished it [sc. a play] in your last fit of sickness..pray go on with it when you are tyed by the Heel next.
1865 C. Kingsley Hereward II. xvi. 274 Tell him Hereward has..half a dozen knights safe by the heels.
1882 R. L. Stevenson Familiar Stud. Men & Bks. 265 His brother still lay by the heels for an unpatriotic treaty with England.
1889 Baltimore Sun 19 Nov. The bold offender..would have been quickly set by the heels.
1945 G. Mitchell Rising of Moon x. 112 I must be sure and speak up for him at the Old Bailey if he happened to be laid by the heels.
2007 Conradian 32 53 Just at the very moment he had unshackled himself from an oppressive mother and a moribund Russian society, fate (or chance) had laid him by the heels.
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