| 单词 | to wind up a bottom or one's bottoms |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto wind up a bottom or one's bottoms b. To coil (thread, etc.) into a compact mass (cf. 15): chiefly in †to wind up a bottom or one's bottoms (bottom n. 24), usually figurative to sum up, conclude (cf. sense 7d). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > complete or conclude action [verb (intransitive)] enda1340 finisha1400 conclude1526 to get through1589 get1594 dispatcha1616 to shut up1626 to wind up1631 finale1797 to top off1836 to top up1837 through1894 to roll up1963 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [verb (intransitive)] > wind reelc1400 spool1603 to wind up1631 quill1825 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > make summary or epitome [verb (intransitive)] suma1398 abstract1596 epitome1596 to wind upa1766 summarize1808 to sum up1899 1631 tr. J. A. Comenius Porta Linguarum Reserata xlvi. §499 Off a reele clewes or bottomes of threads are winded vp and web is made. 1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 46 Wind up your bottome. 1652 E. Peyton Divine Catastrophe Stuarts 138 I have raveled out the peeces, to winde up this bottome. 1749 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. II Pref. p. xli But, to wind up my Bottoms [etc.]. a1766 F. Sheridan Concl. Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph (1770) IV. 27 That would be tipping the spire, and winding up her bottoms with a witness. 1773 C. Dibdin Deserter i. i. 2 I'll give you, while I wind up this bottom and another, and you shan't find it out. < as lemmas |
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