| 单词 |
broken-winded |
| 释义 |
broken-ˈwinded, a.
[f. prec. + -ed.]
1. Farriery. Affected with the disease of a broken wind (see prec.); exhaling the air from the lungs with spasmodic efforts.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §85 Broken wynded is an yll dysease, and cometh of rennynge or rydynge ouer moche..and wyll not be mended. 1580Baret Alv. s.v. Flanke, To moue the flanks like a broken winded horse. 1607Dekker Westw. Hoe Wks. 1873 II. 351, I shall cough like a broken winded horse. 1748tr. Vegetius' Distemp. Horses 176 They are pursive or broken-winded. 1846R. E. Egerton-Warburton Hunt. Songs, Earth Stopper iv, Thy worn hackney, blind and broken winded. 1849–52Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 1021/2.
2. transf. and fig.
1627May Lucan v. (R.) Broke-winded murmers, howlings, and sadd grones. 1641Milton Animadv. (1851) 190 Liberty of speaking..was girded, and straight lac'd, almost to a broken-winded tizzick. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 244 They might as well have tried to turn a rusty weather-cock with a broken-winded bellows. 1883Century Mag. XXVI. 282 Kicking a broken-winded foot-ball about the field. |
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