单词 | trank |
释义 | trankn.1 Glove-making. An oblong piece of kid or other skin from which a glove is to be cut out; also, a glove-shape cut from this, before being sewn. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making other clothing > [noun] > making gloves > material trank1862 1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles i. xxvi The cutters cut the skins into tranks (the shape of the hand in outline) with the separate thumbs and forgits [= side-pieces of fingers]. 1894 Times 17 Aug. 9/4 Glove tranks, with or without the usual accompanying pieces. 1913 T. O. Fardon Let. to Editor Two tranks, 2 thumbs, and 6 fourchettes are required to make a pair of gloves. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2018). trankn.2 slang. = tranquillizer n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > sedatives, antispasmodics, etc. > [noun] > tranquillizer settle-brain1629 tranquillizer1800 quietener1856 calmative1870 quietant1874 ataractic1955 neuroleptic1959 downer1966 trank1967 1967 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (new ed.) Suppl. 708/2 Trank,..a tranquilizer, a pill or capsule containing a tranquilizer. 1973 M. Amis Rachel Papers 196 As late as four fifteen, mother flaked out: either the party had aggravated her sense of intraspecific alienation, or her tranqs, all day neutralized by adrenalin, had hit her together in one clammy punch. 1976 B. Bova Multiple Man xvii. 196 ‘Y'all got a buzzful of trank in yew, boy.’.. I [was] feeling like my head was numb with Novocain. 1980 ‘A. Skinner’ Mind's Eye iv. 34 We'll have to go back to slipping tranks into his coffee. Derivatives tranked adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > effects of drugs > [adjective] > affected by tranquillizers tranked1972 1972 M. Crichton Terminal Man iv. i. 135 He was tranked out of his skull with thorazine. 1974 Observer 17 Mar. 34/7 Lulling drugs are prescribed; tots shamble eerily about, tranked. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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