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单词 well-haled
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well-haledadj.

Forms: Middle English wel-haled.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: well adv., hale v.1, -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < well adv. + hale v.1 + -ed suffix1. Middle Eng. Dict. (at hēme adj.), following the edition by I. Gollancz (EETS OS 210, 1940), interprets quot. c1400 as reading heme-wel haled hose , taking the quot. as showing a compound with the sense ‘well-fitting’ ( < heme adj. + well adv.); this reading has not been accepted by any of the more recent authoritative editions.
Obsolete.
Of hose: fully pulled up, drawn tight.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > types of hardness > [adjective] > taut > made taut
well-haledc1400
spanned1598
braced1633
straitened1667
tensed1676
tightened1760
tended1800
tautened1838
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1967) l. 157 Heme wel-haled hose of þat same [grene].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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