| 单词 | to stir one's stumps |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto stir one's stumps c. Jocularly used for: A leg. Chiefly in to stir one's stumps, to walk or dance briskly, †to do one's duty zealously. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] tillc897 stightlea1375 stretcha1375 wrestlea1382 to put it forthc1390 to put one's hand(s) to (also unto)a1398 paina1400 takea1400 to do one's busy pain (also care, cure, diligence)?a1430 to make great force?c1450 makec1485 to stir one's stumpsa1500 to bestir one's stumps1549 to make work1574 put1596 bestira1616 operate1650 to lay out1659 to be at pains1709 exerta1749 tew1787 maul1821 to take (the) trouble1830 to pull outc1835 bother1840 trouble1880 to buck up1890 hump1897 to go somea1911 the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > go swiftly on foot [verb (intransitive)] to stir one's stumpsa1500 to leg it?1587 skelp1721 split1790 to show a leg1818 to go the pace1829 step1856 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > [noun] shanka900 legc1300 grainsa1400 limbc1400 foot?a1425 stumpa1500 pin?1515 pestlea1529 boughc1550 stamp1567 understander1583 pile1584 supporters1601 walker?1611 trestle1612 fetlock1645 pedestal1695 drumstick1770 gam1785 timber1807 tram1808–18 fork1812 prop1817 nethers1822 forkals1828 understanding1828 stick1830 nether person1835 locomotive1836 nether man1846 underpinning1848 bender1849 Scotch peg1857 Scotch1859 under-pinner1859 stem1860 Coryate's compasses1864 peg1891 wheel1927 shaft1935 a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxx. 406 There I stode on my stumpe, I stakerd that stownde. 1535 R. Layton Let. in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monasteries (1843) 76 His hore..bestyrrede hir stumpis towardes hir startyng hoilles. 1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Cade xx But hope of money made him stur his stumpes, And to assault me valiauntly and bolde. 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Miiv Their pipers pipeing, their drummers thundring, their stumps dauncing, their bels iyngling. 1596 P. Colse Penelopes Complaint To Rdr. sig. A4v I doubt not but poore shepheards will stirre their stumps after my minstrelsie. 1604 B. Jonson Particular Entertainm. at Althrope 277 in His Pt. Royall Entertainem. Come on Clownes forsake your dumps, And bestir your Hobnaild stumps. 1619 H. Hutton Follie's Anat. sig. B4v Making his stumppes supporters to vpholde This masse of guttes. 1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin ii. 16 Up starts amazed John, bestirs his Stump. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Bustle about, to be very Stirring, or bestir one's Stumps. 1726 W. Starrat Pastoral in Praise A. Ramsay (single sheet) [I] Right tozily was set, to ease my Stumps. ?a1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 196 I'd clatter on my stumps at the sound of a drum. 1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster I. x. 131 Come this way, my hearty—stir your stumps. 1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Ernest Maltravers II. iv. vi. 71 Come, why don't you stir your stumps? I suppose I must wait on myself. < as lemmas |
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