单词 | to wallop in a tow |
释义 | > as lemmasto wallop in a tow (also tether) b. to wallop in a tow (also tether): to be hanged. Scottish. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > be hanged [verb (intransitive)] rideeOE hangc1000 anhangc1300 wagc1430 totter?1515 to wave in the windc1515 swing1542 trine1567 to look through ——?1570 to preach at Tyburn cross1576 stretch?1576 to stretch a rope1592 truss1592 to look through a hempen window?a1600 gibbet1600 to have the lift1604 to salute Tyburn1640 to dance the Tyburn jig1664 dangle1678 to cut a caper on nothing1708 string1714 twist1725 to wallop in a tow (also tether)1786 to streek in a halter1796 to straight a ropea1800 strap1815 to dance upon nothing1837 to streek a tow1895 1786 R. Burns Poems 213 Now let us lay our heads thegither, In love fraternal: May Envy wallop in a tether, Black fiend, infernal! 1792 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum IV. 362 And or I wad anither jad, I'll wallop in a tow. a1835 W. Robertson in W. Walker Bards of Bon-accord (1887) 607 I'd rather wallup in a tether Than lightly thee. < as lemmas |
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