transitive. To beat or sting (a person or animal) with nettles. Also figurative. Now rare.
| 单词 | θ172759 |
| 释义 | society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > whip or scourge > with plant or nettles (4) nettlea1425 transitive. To beat or sting (a person or animal) with nettles. Also figurative. Now rare. nettlefy1602 transitive. To wreathe with nettles; = nettle, v. 1a. Only in passive. urticate1861 transitive. To flog with fresh stinging-nettles; also gen., to flagellate, whip. ash-plant1923 to flog with an ash-plant (cf. ash, v.1). |
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