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单词 to ride the cannon
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to ride the cannon
P1. to ride the cannon: (perhaps) to be punished by having to sit astride a cannon while it is being fired. Obsolete.
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1621 L. Hughes Relation of Goodnes of God towards Sommer Ilands sig. B4 Two of the most notorious of them were punished, the one whipped at the whipping Post, the other (because he was a Souldier) did ride the Cannon, shot off full charged, which did shake him terribly.
a1639 J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1655) v. 239 He was apprehended, and by sentence of the Council of War condemned to ride the Cannon.
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