| 单词 | to sport oak |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sport (one's, the) oak a. transitive. to sport (one's, the) oak: to shut the outer door of one's room as a sign that one does not wish to be disturbed. Formerly also (at the Inns of Court) †to sport timber. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > become closed or shut [verb (intransitive)] > become closed (of a door, window, etc.) > keep one's door shut to sport (one's, the) oak1780 1780 ‘R. Wittol’ Incredible Bore 21 'Tis prudent at first coming down to sport oak. 1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) To sport timber, to keep one's outside door shut: this term is used in the inns of courts to signify denying one's self. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life (ed. 4) vi. 112 Seeing the sun quietly slink behind a mass of black clouds, where he sports oak for the rest of the day. 1862 E. Monro Pastoral Life iii. 76 The happy habit learnt and formed at the University of ‘sporting oak’, is never to be laid aside. 1911 M. Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson xii. 187 The man who now occupied my room had sported his oak—my oak. 1956 R. Robinson Landscape with Dead Dons (1963) xvi. 147 The scout departed, and Autumn opened the door, carefully sported the oak on the outer side, then closed the door and locked it. 1974 J. I. M. Stewart Gaudy viii. 145 The light on the little landing was extinguished, but Ivo Mumford's oak had not been sported. 2001 New Statesman (Nexis) 15 Jan. His Cabinet secretary..has been sporting the oak in his office, and virtually nobody sees the confidential papers that emerge from time to time. < as lemmas |
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