单词 | to take at rebound |
释义 | > as lemmasto take (also accept, catch) at (a or the) rebound ΚΠ 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande i. f. 3/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Here percase some snappish carper will take mee at rebounde. 1607 Dobsons Drie Bobbes xiii. 92 The opponent vrging an argument very captiously, was taken at the rebound. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iii. xx. 142 S. Bernard, taking it rather from the rebound than first rise, chargeth them therewith. 1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 118 If he doth but write them by the command of another, by speaking them after another, taking them upon rebound, that is not treason. 1739 W. Melmoth Fitzosborne Lett. (1763) 361 Either to seize upon their conclusions at once, or to take them by rebound from others. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. i. 8 I'll catch you, brother, I'll warrant (as rustics sometimes, in their play, do a ball) on the rebound. 1797 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor IV. xiv. 205 Innovation struck the ball at first too impetuously: but Establishment took it at the rebound, and returned it with triple violence. < as lemmas |
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