单词 | by, in heaps |
释义 | > as lemmasby, in heaps ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adverb] manifoldlyeOE thick971 a-storec1300 rifec1325 thickfolda1400 thicklyc1400 by, in heaps1523 amain1549 numerously1611 frequently1615 sight1836 multitudinously1839 like flies1934 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. clxxxiii. (R.) They..slewe and hanged them vpon trees by heapes. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 259 They..walked in the streetes in heapes. 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 57 The Inhabitants..are inforc'd by heaps to forsake their native Country. 1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Ceyx & Alcyone in Fables 368 The Sailors run in heaps, a helpless Crowd. 1799 S. Turner Hist. Anglo-Saxons I. ii. i. 167 [Hengist] is affirmed..to have butchered in heaps the people who fled to the mountains and deserts. < as lemmas |
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