| 单词 | to tell down |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto tell down to tell down transitive. To put down (money) as payment. Now rare.In quot. 1637 figurative. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > pay money or things [verb (transitive)] > lay down money to lay down1560 lay1572 to tell down1600 consign1633 deposita1640 post1821 1600 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 707 If I would haue solde all my cloth for ready money tolde downe for foure hundred and fifty and fiue hundred reyes, the merchants would haue bought it all of me. 1637 J. Shirley Gamester iv. ii Let her tell down Her virgin tears on Delamore's cold marble. 1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Trivmph of Faith (1845) 34 Should any buy a field of land, and refuse to tell down the money. 1765 G. Colman tr. Terence Brothers iii. iv, in tr. Terence Comedies 361 He told the money down Immediately. 1830 W. Scott Ivanhoe (new ed.) II. x. 171 Tell down with all speed an hundred crowns. 1868 A. E. Senter Diddler 77 Fielding..added, if he would give him ten guineas, he would put him in a way of frustrating his son's hopes... Boaz instantly told down ten guineas. 1916 B. M. Dix Blithe McBride iii. 16 Could not his worship tell down fifteen shillings, and win a blessing? < as lemmas |
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