| 单词 |
enfile |
| 释义 |
† enˈfile, v. Obs. Also 7 infile. [a. Fr. enfile-r: see enfilade.] 1. trans. To put on a string or thread. Also, to enfile up: to hang up on a string, etc.
1393Gower Conf. III. 237 They taughten him [Sardanapallus] to lace a braide..and to enfile A perle. 1601Holland Pliny II. 124 To cut the root..into thin roundles, and to keep them enfiled vp. Ibid. II. 133 The swine mushromes..are hanged vp to dry infiled vpon a rush running through them. 1675Hobbes Odyssey (1677) 116 When they had slain my men, they them enfil'd..like fishes hung in ranks. 2. Her. In pa. pple. (See quot.)
1830Robson Brit. Herald. Gloss. s.v., When the head of a man or beast, or any other charge, is placed on the blade of a sword, the sword is said to be enfiled with whatever is borne upon it. |

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