“trapstick”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

trapstick

释义

ˈtrapstick
[f. trap n.¹ + stick n.]
A stick used in the game of trap or trap-ball.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Paleta, a trapsticke, Bacillum lusorium.a1627Middleton & Rowley Span. Gipsy ii. ii, If my woods, being cut down, can not fill this pocket, cut 'em into trap sticks.1629Shirley Wedding iii. ii, A boy of seven years old beat him with a trap-stick.1764T. Bridges Homer Travest. (1797) I. 272 On high In air he let his trapstick fly.1862Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. 40 A mahogany box,..with..several trap sticks projecting through slots in the top of it.
b. transf. and fig.
1680Honest Hodge & Ralph 14 A meer trap-stick to bang the Phanaticks about.1714Addison Spect. No. 559 ⁋6 A foolish Swop between a Couple of thick bandy Legs, and two long Trapsticks that had no Calfs to them.1796Grose's Dict. Vulg. T., Trap Sticks, thin legs, gambs.

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