| 单词 |
flaying |
| 释义 |
▪ I. flaying, vbl. n.|ˈfleɪɪŋ|
[f. flay v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. flay.
c1440Promp. Parv. 165/2 Fleynge of beestys, excoriacio. 1565Golding Ovid's Met. Epist. (1593) 3 The fleaing off of piper Marsies skin. 1848H. Rogers Ess. I. vi. 321 The flaying and dissecting of a sophist at the hands of so dexterous an anatomist as Socrates.
2. attrib. and Comb., as flaying-knife, flaying season, flaying-shovel, flaying-spade.
1842Browning Waring i. vi, Some Junius..shall tuck His sleeve, and forth with *flaying-knife.
1794J. Boys Agric. Surv. Kent 97 The oaks are all cut in the *flawing season, for the bark of all sizes.
1887S. Chesh. Gloss., *Fleyin-shovel, a sort of plough with a single long handle like a spade driven by the hand.
1573Richmond. Wills (Surtees) 242, iij. peatspades, ij. *flainge spades. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Wordbk., Flaying-spade, an implement for paring off the surface of rough grass land for burning.
▪ II. ˈflaying, ppl. a.
[f. flay + -ing2.]
That flays.
1663Butler Hud. i. ii. 967 Could not the Whipping-Post prevail..To keep from flaying Scourge thy Skin. 1728Gay Begg. Op. ii. i, Those fleaing Rascals the Surgeons. |
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