| 单词 | to send down |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto send down to send down 1. To dispatch from the King or the Lords to the Commons, from the capital, a city, one's headquarters, etc. into the country. Also absol. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > [verb (transitive)] > cause to be conveyed or send i-send971 sendOE transmita1400 waivea1400 to send down1455 envoy1481 to send over1483 remit1543 despeed1611 the world > movement > transference > sending > send [verb (transitive)] > send off or dispatch > from the king or a city to the country to send down1455 1455 Rolls of Parl. V. 303/1 That than the seid provisions and exceptions be sende doune unto us, to that ende that we may gife oure assentz therto. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. iiiv Wherfore in all haste he sent downe gyuyng strayte commaundement yt they shuld cease of yt ryot. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. ii. 1 b [He] sent downe his traine by water: and himselfe went by land. 1671 Lady M. Bertie in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 22 Your mourning..which Fynes sent downe a Thursday. 1678 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 48 All but six Lords disliked the Commons adresse to the King, so it was sent them downe againe. 1884 A. S. Swan Dorothea Kirke xviii. 164 If we meet any poor shop-girl..we'll send her down..to wonder at the blueness of the sky. 1891 ‘J. S. Winter’ Lumley xi. 80 I'm going to send down for Ruth to come up to help to nurse you. 2. To compel (an undergraduate) to leave the University (permanently or for a specified time), as a punishment. = rusticate v. 3. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > [verb (transitive)] > send down rusticate1709 to send away1714 to send off1843 to send down1853 1853 ‘C. Bede’ Adventures Mr. Verdant Green xii. 114 He won't..Gate and chapel you..or send you down. 1894 Times 16 May 10/4 Some 17 members of Christ Church..have been heavily fined and ‘sent down’. 3. Cricket. To bowl (a ball, an over). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > bowl [verb (transitive)] bowl1739 pitch1772 trundle1849 to send down1871 to put down1924 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > bowl [verb (transitive)] > deliver an over to send down1871 1871 Baily's Monthly Mag. Oct. 415 At times, no bowler in England sends down such utterly unplayable balls. 1882 Daily Tel. 19 May Nine overs were then sent down for half a dozen runs. 4. To dispatch or commit to prison by sentence. Frequently passive. slang (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > imprison [verb (transitive)] beclosec1000 setc1100 steekc1175 prison?c1225 adightc1275 imprison1297 laya1325 keepc1330 presentc1380 locka1400 throwc1422 commise1480 clapc1530 shop1548 to lay up1565 incarcerate1575 embar1590 immure1598 hole1608 trunk1608 to keep (a person) darka1616 carceir1630 enjaila1631 pocket1631 bridewell1733 bastille1745 cage1805 quod1819 bag1824 carcerate1839 to send down1840 jug1841 slough1848 to send up1852 to put away1859 warehouse1881 roundhouse1889 smug1896 to bang up1950 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > sentencing > sentence [verb (transitive)] > sentence to jail to send down1840 settle1899 1840 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 2 Aug. 2/5 She scorned to find surety in $500 to keep the peace, so she was sent down. 1880 G. A. Sala Amer. Revisited (1882) I. v. 85 They were ‘sent down’ for ten days. 1941 ‘R. West’ Black Lamb & Grey Falcon II. 315 We caught the murderer..and he was sent down for a long sentence. 1960 G. Butler Death lives Next Door vi. 118 I'm Ted Springer's missus. Sent him down for three years, you did. 1976 ‘P. B. Yuill’ Hazell & Menacing Jester iii. 39 ‘Is there any chance he could go to gaol?’ ‘You'd like him sent down, would you?’ 5. To cause to accompany someone (to dinner). ΚΠ 1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere II. ii. xvii. 74 They would be sent down to dinner together to a certainty. 1892 ‘A. Hope’ Mr. Witt's Widow viii. 98 That lady..sent Laura down to dinner with him. 6. send her down, Davy (also Hughie, etc.) and variants: expressing a wish for rain to fall. Cf. Hughie n. slang (chiefly Australian and New Zealand). ΚΠ 1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 44 Send her down, Steve!, let it rain on. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 72 David (or Davy), send it down, a soldier's greeting to a shower of rain likely to postpone a parade. 1928 L. H. Nason Sergeant Eadie xi. 321 Hurray! Send her down, Davie; no drill today! 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 209/1 New Zealanders and Australians say send her down, Hughie! 1958 Tararua 27 The derisive phrases, ‘Send it down, Hughie’ and ‘Let it come down, Hughie’, go back to early in this century and are variants of the British military catch-phrase ‘Send it down, David’... St. Hugh has long been associated with rain. 1975 Panorama (Austral.) Nov. 2/5 ‘Send 'er down, Hughie!’ An expression in nationwide use since the turn of the century, which is..an invocation to Heaven..to send rain. < as lemmas |
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