“ducking、pond”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

ducking-pond

释义

ˈducking-pond
[f. ducking vbl. n.¹ and vbl. n.²]
a. A pond on which ducks may be hunted or shot.
b. A pond for the ducking of offenders. (The senses cannot always be discriminated.)
1607Middleton Fam. of Love iv. i, You may take your spaniel and spend some hours at the ducking-pond.1625Sess. Bk. Middlesex in Jrnl. Chester Archæol. Soc. (1861) VI. 224 The inhabitants of the parishe of St. James, Clerkenwell, shall erect and place a Cocqueane-Stoole on the side of the ducking ponde.1634W. Wood New Eng. Prosp. (1865) 33 No ducking ponds can affoard more delight than a lame Cormorant, and two or three lusty Dogges.1664Pepys Diary 27 Mar.1765Universal Mag. XXXVII. 54/1 The ducking-pond in Whitechapel.1870Observer 13 Nov., Ball's Pond, Islington, takes its name from the Ducking Pond which belonged to a person named Ball, who kept a tavern there in the reign of Charles II.

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