| 单词 |
flatlings |
| 释义 |
ˈflatling, ˈflatlings, adv. and a. Obs. exc. arch. or dial.
[f. flat a. + -lings.]
A. adv.
1. In a prostrate position, at full length, flat. Often with fall, lie, etc.
1375Barbour Bruce xvii. 369 Oft leddres, and men..Thai gert fall flatlings to the ground. c1450Mirour Saluacioun 2501 The knyghtes upon the grounde laide than the crosse flatling. 1530Lyndesay Test. Papyngo 184 Scho..flatlyngis fell, and swappit in to swoun. a1605Montgomerie Flyting w. Polwart 111, I's fell thee like a fluike, flatlings on the flure. 1632Lithgow Trav. i. 37 The halfe of his body and right arme fell flatlings in the fire. 1895J. H. McCarthy Lond. Leg. III. 118 In a moment he had stumbled backwards and fallen flatlings into the ditch.
2. With the flat side.
1470–85Malory Arthur viii. xxxii, Sire tristram..smote vpon hym fyue or sixe strokes flatlynge on the neck. 1578Timme Caluine on Gen. 121 This shaking sword..was not always shaking with the edge towards Man, but sometimes flatling also. 1591Harington Orl. Fur. xxx. liv, It [the blow] lighted flatling on him. 1820Scott Ivanhoe xlii, [His] sword turned in his hand, so that the blade struck me flatlings. 1868Morris Earthly Par. i. 321 He smote him flatling with his sheathed sword.
3. Of motion: On the level, horizontally.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. iv. Columnes 325 He doth not ride Flatling a-long, but vp the Sphears steep side.
4. dial. Plainly, peremptorily.
1847–78in Halliwell, Flatlins, plainly, peremptory.
†B. adj. (In form flatling only.) Of a blow: Dealt with the flat side of a weapon. Obs.
1579–80North Plutarch, Alcibiades 211 Flatling blowes. 1609Heywood Brit. Troy xi. 91 A flatling blow that on his beauer glancst. |
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