温馨提示：本站仅提供公开网络链接索引服务，不存储、不篡改任何第三方内容，所有内容版权归原作者所有
AI智能索引来源：http://www.wehd.com/96/Top-piece_sb.html
点击访问原文链接

Top-piece sb. World English Historical Dictionary

进入原网站 导航首页
Top-piece sb. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Top-piece sb. The piece that forms or is at the top of anything; spec. † a. The best or finest piece; the chef-d’œuvre, masterpiece. Obs. rare. b. The head. colloq. c. = TOPIT. d. Shoe-making: see quots.

1   a.  1682.  Bunyan, Greatness of Soul, Wks. (ed. Offor), I. 122. The soul is the … top-piece that He hath made in all the visible world. Ibid. (1682), Holy War, i. 3. The Top-piece beyond any thing else that he did in that country.

2   b.  1838.  in Eng. Dial. Dict.

3 1864.  Lowell, Fireside Trav., 180. The Acephali, with whom Herodotus … wound up his climax of men with abnormal top-pieces.

4   c.  1839.  Ure, Dict. Arts, 966. The topit, or top-piece.

5   d.  1911.  Encycl. Brit., XXIV. 993/1. Lifts and top-pieces for the heels. Ibid., 993/2. The top-pieces, similar to the outsoles, are put on and nailed down to the lifts.

6 © 2022 WEHD.com

智能索引记录