“rocking、horse”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

rocking-horse

释义

ˈrocking-horse
[rocking ppl. a.]
A wooden horse mounted on rockers for children to ride upon with a rocking motion. Also fig.
1724in N. & Q. (1942) 7 Feb. 76/1 Rocking Horse. William Bird, turner, just without Newgate.c1804H. Knapp in Etoniana 225 Who..Makes Pegasus a rocking-horse.1826Hone Every-day Bk. I. 292 Before I had ridden anything but my rocking horse.1869Trollope He knew, etc. lxxviii. (1878) 433 The boy is here, you may be sure..; the rocking-horse makes that certain.
attrib.1834West India Sk. Bk. I. 48 Porpoises..pursued their course with a sort of rocking-horse motion on the surface.1871Lowell Wks. (1890) IV. 23 Common⁓place set to this rocking-horse jig irritates the nerves.1922Joyce Ulysses 495 Result of the rockinghorse races.1936F. R. Leavis Revaluation iv. 112 Prior takes happily to those anapaestic, rocking-horse rhythms.1964D. Varaday Gara-Yaka vii. 64 Then she bounded back in rocking⁓horse cheetah gait.

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