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单词 to put, etc, under the spear
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to put, etc., under the spear
b. to sell at the spear, to put, etc., under the spear, to sell by auction. to pass under the spear, to ‘come under the hammer’. Obsolete.After the common Latin phrase sub hasta vendere.
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society > trade and finance > selling > a public sale > hold a sale [verb (intransitive)] > be sold by auction
go?a1425
to pass under the spear1600
go (also come) to (or under) the hammer1842
society > trade and finance > selling > a public sale > sell by public sale [verb (transitive)] > sell by auction
roup1513
to sell at a pike1594
to put, etc., under the spear1600
knocka1626
outcry1676
to cry out1701
cant1720
to knock down1765
auctioneer1785
auction1884
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. ii. xvii. 55 The rest of the inhabitants were sold at the speare in ouvert market like slaves.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxiii. xxxii. 496 Their fields he would lay wast; sell their servants in port sale at the speare.
1611 B. Jonson Catiline ii. sig. E2 When you see..Their Houses, and fine Gardens giuen away, And all their goods, vnder the Speare, at out-cry. View more context for this quotation
1689 J. Evelyn Let. 12 Aug. in Diary & Corr. (1859) III. 309 The noblest..library, that ever passed under the spear.
1710 D. Manley Mem. Europe II. 105 They persuaded him to put all the Furniture of the House immediately under the Spear.
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