| 单词 | to shell down |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto shell down a. transitive. To disburse, pay up, hand over. Also (rarely) to shell down. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > pay money or things [verb (transitive)] > pay up or out to pay out1438 to pay over1668 to shell down1801 pony1819 tip1829 to fork out, over, or up1831 to stump up1833 to put up1838 stump1841 pungle1851 to ante up1880 cough1894 to peg out1895 brass1898 1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 191 One of you..must shell out your corianders [see coriander n. 3]. 1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf vii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 141 The gold is shelled down when ye command, as fast as I have seen the ash-keys fall in a frosty morning. 1817 M. Edgeworth Love & Law i. i, in Comic Dramas 10 To shell out for me the price of a deecent horse. 1819 T. Moore Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress (ed. 3) 27 Who knows but, if coax'd, he may shell out the shiners? 1863 J. P. Robson Songs Bards of Tyne 299 Shell oot yor goold, my collier lad. < as lemmas |
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