单词 | wind-shaken |
释义 | wind-shakenadj. 1. Shaken or agitated by the wind. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [adjective] > agitated > by the wind wind-shaken?1553 wind-shakeda1616 breeze-shaken1742 ?1553 Respublica (1952) v. x. 63 Baggs tottering looce abought me like windshaken rags. a1557 J. Cheke tr. Gospel St. Matthew (1843) xi. 7 A windschaken reed. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. ii. 110 The Oake not to be winde-shaken . View more context for this quotation 1644 Prerog. Anatomized 7 All the trees were wind-shaken, and those that were not fast rooted, fell. 1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin lviii. 545 The wind-shaken foliage. 1876 A. C. Swinburne Forsaken Garden in Poems & Ballads 2nd Ser. iii The weeds wind-shaken. 2. Of timber: Affected with wind-shake. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [adjective] > of trees or timber wind-shaken1565 wind-shook1784 cup-shakya1793 cup-shaken1808 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Rima To be wyndeshaken as tymber is. 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xlv. 5) God doo oftentymes tumble them downe from their wyndshaken and rotten seeges. 1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. H Some poore winde-shaken gallant. 1668 Earl of Clarendon Vindic. in Tracts (1727) 33 The middle of every piece was wind-shaken and rotten. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 387 The discharging Trees of unthrifty broken wind-shaken Boughs. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Anemosis, the condition known in timber by the name of wind shaken. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.?1553 |
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