| 单词 | to keep steeks with |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto keep (also hold) steeks with to keep (also hold) steeks with: to keep pace or time with; to keep up with. Sc. National Dict. (at Steek n.2) records this phrase as still in use in Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfriesshire, and Selkirkshire in 1971. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > be simultaneous with [verb (transitive)] > make simultaneous or contemporary > cause to go at the same rate to keep (also hold) steeks with1793 time1808 synchronize1879 1793 Northumberland Garland ix. 54 Wight Wallace could hardly have with her kept steaks. a1801 R. Gall Poems & Songs (1819) 27 Then wi' her hands her tongue kept steeks. 1896 S. R. Crockett Grey Man vi. 42 The wearers of the butcher's colours had enough to do to keep steeks with us. 1927 Kirkcudbrightshire Advertiser 24 June They say it hauds steeks wi'—a Neighbourin' Toon! 1942 in Sc. National Dict. (1960) V. 377/2 [Kirkcudbrightshire] Ye couldna keep steeks wi' that Alec; them that gets ahin 'im are ridin' gey near the tail. < as lemmas |
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