“tar、box”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

tar-box

释义

tar-box|ˈtɑːbɒks|
A box formerly used by shepherds to hold tar as a salve for sheep.
c1420? Lydg. Assembly of Gods 326 The rewde god Pan..Clad in russet frese, & breched lyke a bere, With a gret tar box hangyng by hys syde.1523Fitzherb. Husb. §41 And a shepeherde shoulde not go without his dogge, his shepe hoke, a payre of sheres, and his terre boxe.16022nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. v. ii. 2088 A shepards hooke, a tarbox, and a scrippe.1658Osborn Jas. I, Wks. (1673) 514 (Spight of his Tarbox) he died of the Scab.
†b. Applied contemptuously to a person: = ‘stinking fellow’. Obs.
a1592Greene Jas. IV, iii. i, Such as rub horses do good service in the commonweal, ergo, tarbox, master courtier, a horse-keeper is a gentleman.1687Settle Refl. Dryden 12 Tarbox Muly Lahas is not the Fool this bout.

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