英语词汇“door、nail”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

door-nail

释义

door-nail
A large-headed nail, with which doors were formerly studded for strength, protection, or ornamentation: now chiefly in the alliterative phr. as dead, deaf, dumb, dour, as a door-nail: see dead a. 32 b., deaf a. 1 d., etc.
(Conjectured by Todd to be ‘The nail on which in ancient doors the knocker struck’. No evidence of this appears.)
c1350[see dead a. 32 b].1350in Riley Lond. Mem. (1868) 262, 3000 dornail..7200 dornail.a1400–50Alexander 4747 Dom as a dore-nayle & defe was he bathe.1593–1680 [see dead 32 b.].1854Mrs. Gaskell North & S. xvii, Thornton is as dour as a doornail.1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. 497 Door-nails, floor and roof-nails.

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