单词 | cannon-smoked |
释义 | > as lemmascannon-smoked b. Parasynthetic, instrumental, and similative, as cannon-mouthed, cannon-smoked, etc. ΚΠ 1567 in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) III. 264 Knox thundered out..cannon-hot against her. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 59 When the fame of the king of fishes was canon-rored in her eares [printed eates]. 1613 J. Boys Expos. Last Psalm 8 These bellowing Buls of Basan, and Canon-mouthed hell-hounds would haue made on this day such a roare. 1651 W. Davenant Gondibert ii. xxxv Deep Cannon Mouth'd experienc'd Hounds. 1790 J. Bruce Trav. Source Nile II. 678 There is a kind of glass bottle..the neck is wider, like that of our glass decanters,..and the lips of it folded back, such as we call cannon-mouthed. 1813 R. Wilson Private Diary II. 147 My new order ribbon: it is not in itself beautiful, but it becomes so when cannon-smoked. 1844 E. B. Barrett Poems II. 149 Room for the dead in Paris! welcome solemn And grave-deep, 'neath the cannon-moulded column! 1898 Photogr. News 14 Jan. 27/1 I fancied my face flattening and spreading out to the size of a cheese-box under the glassy stare of the cannon-mouthed lens. 1955 W. Y. Carman Hist. Firearms vii. 137 These pistols with a cannon-shaped barrel were in use in Charles the First's reign. 2002 R. L. Contreras New Amer. Majority ix. 197 He..proceeded to dig cannon sized trenches in which he mounted his own heavy cannon. < as lemmas |
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