英语词汇“to spike one's guns”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. To render (a gun) unserviceable by driving a spike into the touch-hole; also, to block or fill up (the touch-hole) with a spike. (Cf. 1b.) Also figurative, esp. in to spike (some)one's guns.

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (transitive)] > check (in) a course of action

stanchc1315

arrestc1374

checka1400

stem?c1450

stay1525

to take up1530

rebate1532

suspend1565

nip1575

countercheck1590

to nip in the bud1590

to clip the wings ofa1593

to nip in (also by, on) the head (also neck, pate)1594

trasha1616

to scotch the wheels of1648

spike1687

spoke1854

to pull up1861

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > putting weapons or equipment out of action > put weapons or equipment out of action [verb (transitive)] > silence a gun > by spiking

clowa1522

peg1551

to nail up1562

cloy1577

nail1598

spick1623

spike1644

wedge1680

spike1687

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > be useless for [verb (transitive)] > make useless > make unserviceable

spike1871

throw1902

spike-bozzle1915

1687 London Gaz. No. 2270/5 Captain Archburnett..made himself Master of their Guns, which he ordered to be dismounted and spiked.

1700 P. Rycaut Hist. Turks 150/1 In one of which [sallies] they spiked or nailed three Pieces of Cannon.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) Among Mariners, the Touch-hole of a Gun is said To be spiked, when Nails are purposely driven into it, so that no Use can be made of that Gun by an Enemy.

1778 R. Orme Hist. Mil. Trans. Brit. Nation II. 62 Ensign Pischard..seized and spiked the four pieces of cannon.

1811 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) VII. 269 Unfortunately the guns in the battery were not spiked, or otherwise destroyed or injured.

1848 Exchequer Rep. II. 174 The defendant.. spiked the guns, and placed sentinels at the doors.

figurative.1823 T. Creevey Let. 11 Mar. in H. Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) II. iii. 66 He has himself entirely spiked his guns in the House of Commons.1862 E. Hall Jrnl. 9 Mar. in O. A. Sherrard Two Victorian Girls (1966) ii. 291 He proceeded to kiss her forehead... She should have spiked the first gun instead of leaving it to clear the way for the advance of others.1871 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows (1886) 37 All the batteries of noise are spiked.1927 New Republic 21 Sept. 122/2 They have flitted from one foolish suggestion to the other. The silliest of these was that, to spike the third-term objection, Mr. Coolidge would agree, if elected in 1928, to resign at the expiration of his eighth year of continued occupancy.1953 L. P. Hartley Go-between 16 My enemies would be off their guard, they would never suspect danger from a gun they had so thoroughly spiked.1971 S. E. Morison European Discov. Amer.: Northern Voy. xiv. 469 It remained for Samuel de Champlain to spike the legend of a City of Norumbega, storied like a New Jerusalem.

单词	to spike one's guns
释义	> as lemmas to spike (some)one's guns 2. To render (a gun) unserviceable by driving a spike into the touch-hole; also, to block or fill up (the touch-hole) with a spike. (Cf. 1b.) Also figurative, esp. in to spike (some)one's guns. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (transitive)] > check (in) a course of action stanchc1315 arrestc1374 checka1400 stem?c1450 stay1525 to take up1530 rebate1532 suspend1565 nip1575 countercheck1590 to nip in the bud1590 to clip the wings ofa1593 to nip in (also by, on) the head (also neck, pate)1594 trasha1616 to scotch the wheels of1648 spike1687 spoke1854 to pull up1861 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > putting weapons or equipment out of action > put weapons or equipment out of action [verb (transitive)] > silence a gun > by spiking clowa1522 peg1551 to nail up1562 cloy1577 nail1598 spick1623 spike1644 wedge1680 spike1687 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > be useless for [verb (transitive)] > make useless > make unserviceable spike1871 throw1902 spike-bozzle1915 1687 London Gaz. No. 2270/5 Captain Archburnett..made himself Master of their Guns, which he ordered to be dismounted and spiked. 1700 P. Rycaut Hist. Turks 150/1 In one of which [sallies] they spiked or nailed three Pieces of Cannon. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) Among Mariners, the Touch-hole of a Gun is said To be spiked, when Nails are purposely driven into it, so that no Use can be made of that Gun by an Enemy. 1778 R. Orme Hist. Mil. Trans. Brit. Nation II. 62 Ensign Pischard..seized and spiked the four pieces of cannon. 1811 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) VII. 269 Unfortunately the guns in the battery were not spiked, or otherwise destroyed or injured. 1848 Exchequer Rep. II. 174 The defendant.. spiked the guns, and placed sentinels at the doors. figurative.1823 T. Creevey Let. 11 Mar. in H. Maxwell Creevey Papers (1903) II. iii. 66 He has himself entirely spiked his guns in the House of Commons.1862 E. Hall Jrnl. 9 Mar. in O. A. Sherrard Two Victorian Girls (1966) ii. 291 He proceeded to kiss her forehead... She should have spiked the first gun instead of leaving it to clear the way for the advance of others.1871 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows (1886) 37 All the batteries of noise are spiked.1927 New Republic 21 Sept. 122/2 They have flitted from one foolish suggestion to the other. The silliest of these was that, to spike the third-term objection, Mr. Coolidge would agree, if elected in 1928, to resign at the expiration of his eighth year of continued occupancy.1953 L. P. Hartley Go-between 16 My enemies would be off their guard, they would never suspect danger from a gun they had so thoroughly spiked.1971 S. E. Morison European Discov. Amer.: Northern Voy. xiv. 469 It remained for Samuel de Champlain to spike the legend of a City of Norumbega, storied like a New Jerusalem. extracted from spikev.¹ < as lemmas
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