| 单词 | to try by the board |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto try by the board b. by the board: (down) by the ship's side, overboard, as to slip by the board: ‘to slip down a ship's side’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.). to come, go, etc. by the board: to fall overboard, to go for good and all, to be ‘carried away’. to try by the board: to try boarding. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [phrase] > on board ship > over the side of a ship over (the) boardc1430 by the board1630 the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > be non-existent [verb (intransitive)] > end or cease to exist tirec725 endOE forfareOE goc1175 fleec1200 to wend awayc1225 diea1240 to-melta1240 to pass awaya1325 flit1340 perishc1350 vanisha1375 decorre1377 cease1382 dispend1393 failc1400 overshakec1425 surcease1439 adrawc1450 fall1523 decease1538 define1562 fleet1576 expire1595 evanish1597 extinguish1599 extirp1606 disappear1623 evaporatea1631 trans-shift1648 annihilate1656 exolve1657 cancela1667 to pass off1699 to burn out, forth1832 spark1845 to die out1853 to come, go, etc. by the board1859 sputter1964 1630 J. Taylor Wks. iii. 40/1 In this fight their Reare-Admirals Maine Mast was shot by the boord. 1666 London Gaz. No. 60/3 Our Main-stay, and our Main Top-Mast..came all by the board. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 11 Feb. (1972) VII. 40 The storms..have driven back three or four of them, with their masts by the board. 1705 London Gaz. No. 4098/3 All her Masts came by the board. 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy III. iv. 73 Captain Wilson, therefore, resolved to try her by the board. 1841 H. W. Longfellow Wreck of Hesperus in Boston Bk. (ed. 3) 76 Her rattling shrouds, all sheath'd in ice, With the masts, went by the board. 1859 J. D. Burn Autobiogr. Beggar Boy (ed. 4) 14 Every instinct and feeling of humanity goes by the board. 1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. vi. 103 A class of grammatical distinctions which have gone by the board. < as lemmas |
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