英语词汇“fetterlock”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

fetterlock

释义

fetterlock|ˈfɛtəlɒk|
Also 5 feter-, -ir-, -yr-, 6 fether-, 7 feawter-, fewter-.
[f. fetter n. + lock; in sense 1 a corruption of fetlock.]
1. = fetlock 1. Also used attrib.
1587L. Mascall Govt. Cattle (1627) 135 They clippe away all the hayre sauing the fetherlocke.1617Markham Caval. ii. 9 His ioyntes beneath his knees great, with long feawter lockes.1678Lond. Gaz. No. 1338/4 A grey Mare..charm'd upon the 4 fetter-lock joints.1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 154/1 The Fewter-lock.1716Lond. Gaz. No. 5470/4 The Fetter-Locks behind bigger than the other.1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. (1844) II. xlv. 85 Our horses' feet were sinking at every step above their fetterlocks.
b. transf. of a human being.
1664Butler Hud. ii. i. 91 To set at large his Fetter-locks.
2. An apparatus fixed to the foot of a horse, to prevent his running away.
c1440Promp. Parv. 159/1 Fetyrlokke, sera compeditalis.1530Palsgr. 220/1 Fetterlocke, serrure a goujons.1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 510 The forme of the Keepe..built like a fetter-lock.
fig.1841James Brigand xxi, Despotic suspicion had not invented the fetter-lock of passports.
b. The same represented on a badge, shield, etc. Also a jewel of the same form.
It is figured as a cylinder to which a chain or steel band is attached in the form of a D, one end being permanently fixed and the other secured by a lock.
1463Bury Wills (1850) 37 A litil fetirlok of gold with a lace of perle and smal bedys therto of blak.c1465Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 2 An F. for þe feterlock þat is of grete substance.1605Camden Rem. (1637) 346 King Edward..bare his white Rose, the fetterlocke before specified.1646Buck Rich. III, iv. 115 The device was, A Faulcon encompassed with a Fetter-lock.1820Scott Ivanhoe xxix, A fetterlock, and a shacklebolt on a field-sable.

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