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释义 | > as lemmasby footmeal ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > [noun] > a short distance > a very short distance footmealOE hair-brede14.. hairbreadth1561 hair's breadth1584 micromillimetre1987 OE tr. Wonders of East (Tiber.) §16. 194 Ðær beoð dracan kende, ða beoð on lenge hundteontiges fotmæla [L. pedum] and fiftiges lange. OE Battle of Maldon (1942) 275 Eadweard se langa..gylpwordum spræc þæt he nolde fleogan fotmæl landes, ofer bæc bugan, þa his betera leg. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1086 Se þe wæs ærur rice cyng & maniges landes hlaford, he næfde þa ealles landes buton seofon fotmæl. a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) l. 1531 (MED) x footemel [L. decempedis] the centeneris take. 1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin xv. 901 The Spaniards not ceassing..to winne aduantage by footmeale [Fr. pour s'auancer & gagner..vn pied, tantost vn autre]. < as lemmas |
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