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单词 to look through a hempen window
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to look through a hempen window
c. colloquial or slang. In various expressions referring to death by hanging, as to look through a hempen window (cf. hempen adj. 1b). Obsolete.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > be hanged [verb (intransitive)]
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hangc1000
anhangc1300
wagc1430
totter?1515
to wave in the windc1515
swing1542
trine1567
to look through ——?1570
to preach at Tyburn cross1576
stretch?1576
to stretch a rope1592
truss1592
to look through a hempen window?a1600
gibbet1600
to have the lift1604
to salute Tyburn1640
to dance the Tyburn jig1664
dangle1678
to cut a caper on nothing1708
string1714
twist1725
to wallop in a tow (also tether)1786
to streek in a halter1796
to straight a ropea1800
strap1815
to dance upon nothing1837
to streek a tow1895
?1570 T. Preston Lamentable Trag. Cambises sig. D.ijv If ye be taken Cosin, ye must looke through a rope.
?a1600 Marriage Wit & Wisdom (1846) iii. 28 If we should chance to looke through an hemp Windowe, and our arse brake our necke.
1627 J. Taylor Armado sig. A5 Making their wils at Wapping, or looking through a hempen window at St. Thomas Waterings.
1668 F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue II. ix. sig. G3 Such a parcel of Canary-birds as well deserved to look through a Hempen casement at the three corner'd tenement in the high-way betwixt London and Padington.
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