| 单词 | to lie neck and heels |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto lie neck and heels P8. to tie (also †lay) neck and heels: to confine or bind securely. Also †to lie neck and heels and figurative. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > bind, fetter, or shackle [verb (transitive)] bind971 to bind hand and footOE i-bindec1000 umgivea1300 warrok1362 hampera1375 bolt1377 shacklec1440 astrainc1475 estrain1483 to put in irons1533 to tie up1570 manacle1582 beshackle1599 to tie (also lay) neck and heels1618 fillet1633 kilta1689 to tie down1699 oblige1718 hog-tie1886 zip-tie1985 1618 S. Argall Edict in S. M. Kingsbury Rec. Virginia Company (1933) III. 93 Every person to go to Church Sundays & holidaies or lye neck & heels on the Corps du Gard ysupe night following & be a slave ysupe week following. 1643 E. Chillenden Inhumanity Kings Prison-keeper 2 He swore he would lay me neck and heels in Irons. 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 156 [Ye] That to your own Imperious Wills, Laid Law and Gospel Neck and Heels. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 310/2 The Tying Neck and Heels, is a Punishment of decrepiting, that is benumming the Body, by drawing it all together, as it were into a round Ball. 1701 C. Cibber Love makes Man iv. 41 Take this Fool, let him be gagg'd, ty'd neck and heels, and lock'd into a Garret. 1711 J. Buckingham Diary Land Exped. against Crown Point (1825) Four Indians belonging to Capt. Shaw's company committed to our guard, and laid neck-and-heels..for trading with the Five Nations. 1760 Cautions & Advices to Officers of Army 44 Tying Neck and Heels, is thus performed. The Criminal sits down on the Ground, when a firelock is put under his Hams, and another over his Neck, which are forcibly brought, almost together, by means of a Couple or Cartouch box Straps. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lix. 282 A highwayman or housebreaker as had tied the ladies neck and heels..and put 'em in a cellar. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xvi. 130 Nephi tried to stop these scandalous proceedings; but they tied him neck and heels, and went on with their lark. 1901 Atlantic Monthly 88 22/1 [MacLean] shrugged his shoulders. ‘So long as you tie him neck and heels..I am content,’ he answered. 1990 Black Amer. Lit. Forum 24 464 The Zulu Club audience..feels itself ‘tied neck and heels’ by a poetic analogy. < as lemmas |
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