单词 | to look through a hempen window |
释义 | > as lemmasto look through a hempen window ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > be hanged [verb (intransitive)] rideeOE 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. < as lemmas |
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