单词 | culbut |
释义 | culbut, v. rare. [An anglicized adaptation of F. culbuter, f. cul back, fundament + buter to butt, to strike abruptly.] To overturn backwards, throw any one on his back; to drive back in disorder.
a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xxvi. 219 Not..permitted to culbut. 1832Blackw. Mag. XXXII. 545 The generals..had led or left them to be culbuted by the French. 1842Ibid. LI. 630 A British battalion..driving him over hill and dale, culbuted in the most exemplary manner. |

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