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单词 to stretch
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to stretch
b. to stretch (a person, his neck): to hang.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > hang [verb (transitive)]
hangc1000
anhangOE
forhangc1300
to loll up1377
gallowa1400
twitchc1450
titc1480
truss1536
beswinga1566
trine1567
to turn over1570
to turn off1581
to turn (a person) on the toe1594
to stretch1595
derrick1600
underhang1603
halter1616
staba1661
noose1664
alexander1666
nub1673
ketch1681
tuck1699
gibbet1726
string1728
scrag1756
to hang up1771
crap1773
patibulate1811
strap1815
swing1816
croak1823
yardarm1829
to work off1841
suspercollatea1863
dangle1887
1595 W. S. Lamentable Trag. Locrine ii. ii. 81 Here, good fellow; take it at my command, Vnlesse you meane to be stretcht.
a1652 R. Brome Queen & Concubine iv. iii. 82 in Five New Playes (1659) For fear the Rusticks may presume again To stretch these penitent necks with halter strain.
1701 C. Cibber Love makes Man iv. 44 D. Du. But, pray Sir, were you as Intimate at both Play-houses? Clo. No, stretch 'em!
1775 N.Y. Jrnl. 9 Feb. in F. Moore Diary Amer. Rev. I. 19 ‘Pray, Mr. ——, what is a Tory?’ He replied, ‘A Tory is a thing whose head is in England, and its body in America, and its neck ought to be stretched.’
c1800 Irish Song The night before Larry was stretch'd The boys they all paid him a visit.
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