“canstick”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

canstick

释义

† canstick Obs.
Apparently a contracted form of candlestick. kit with the canstick: Jack-o'-lantern, Will o' the wisp.
1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 20 Coll vnder canstyk, she can plaie on bothe handis, Dissimulacion well she vnderstandis.1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. vii. xv. 122 They have so fraied us with bull beggars, spirits, witches..kit with the cansticke, etc.1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. i. 131, I had rather heare a Brazen Canstick [1623 candlestick] turn'd Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree.1616Chapman Batrachom. 8 Their fencefull bucklers were The middle rounds of can'sticks. [Cowper has: The lamp contributed its central tin, A shield for each.]1617S. Collins Def. Bp. Elie A ij b, His..wodden cansticke.

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