单词 Davy 释义 Davy1|dev|In full Davy lamp, Davy's lamp.[Named after the inventor.]The miner's safety-lamp invented by Sir Humphry Davy, in which the flame is surrounded with wire-gauze, so as to prevent its communication to explosive gases outside the l...
单词 davy 释义 davy2 slang.|dev|A vulgar shortening of affidavit, esp. in phr. to take one's davy (= ‘to take one's oath’).1764O'Hara Midas ii. iv. (Farmer), And I with my davy will back it, I'll swear.1785Grose Dict. Vulgar Tongue, I'll take my davy o...