| 释义 |
▪ I. unˈplumb, a.
(un-1 7.)
1828Carlyle in Froude Life (1882) II. 27 She watches over her joiners..with an eye like any hawk's, from which nothing crooked, unplumb or otherwise irregular can hide itself.
▪ II. unˈplumb, v.
[un-2 4.]
trans. To take out of lead coffins.
1796Burke Let. to Noble Lord Wks. VIII. 6 They unplumb the dead for bullets to assassinate the living. [1845Ford Handbk. Spain I. iii. 389 Nor have the dead been unplumbed to furnish missiles of death against the living.] |
