英语词汇“pit、hole”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

pit-hole

释义

ˈpit-hole, n.
A hole forming a pit; a pit-like hollow or cavity. (In various applications: see quots., and senses of pit n.¹) b. spec. A grave.
1601Holland Pliny I. 525 Buds sprouting forth vnder the concauity or pit-hole of the foresaid ioints.a1625Fletcher, etc. Fair Maid Inn ii. ii, I have known a lady sick of the small pocks, onely to keep her face from pitholes, take cold, strike them in again, kick up the heels, and vanish.1814Scott Wav. xvi, A black bog..full of large pit-holes.
b.1621–3Middleton & Rowley Changeling iv. i. 64 Alexander, that thought the world Too narrow for him, in th' end had but his pit-hole.1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 647 It is common to fright children into taking of their physic, by telling them that else they must be put into the pit-hole.1896Warwicksh. Wd.-bk. s.v., Baby's dead, and gone in the pit-hole. [So in Eng. dialects, from Notts to Devon and Kent: see E.D.D.]
Hence pit-hole v., to lay in the grave, to bury.
1607W. S. Puritaine i. B j b, All my friends were pitt⁓hold, gone to Graues.1611Chapman May-day iii. 43, I would see her pithole[d], afore I would deale with her.

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