pigstick

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A waterjet disruptor used to disable explosive devices.
    — The pigstick was set up on the nightstand next to him, the shotgun shell held in place by a metal arm. I followed the wire to a timing device, realized I had no expertise at all to disarm it, and chose instead to simply point the contraption away from Lance.
  2. A staff that carries a flag or pennant above the mast of a sailboat.
    — Above the truck there is frequently a slender vertical extension of the mast, called a pigstick.
  3. An event or gathering at which pigs are hunted for sport. obsolete
    — I send you an account of a pigstick at which I was the other day, if you care to insert it in your Magazine.
  4. A stick that is used for stabbing.
    — Nellie has often begged food from her : she has seen the woman use the "pigstick" to thrash the child with, and heard cries and moans coming from the end house.
动词 v.
  1. To stab.
    — But if he goes (I always looked things in the face) I suppose I'll get to the Front, too, and do me best to pigstick someone in baggy breeches that I never saw or heard of before […]
  2. To hunt pigs. obsolete
    — There were generally enough, however, to pigstick with, hunt jackals, or even wolves at times, and "lark" over the steeplechase course which he had constructed round the* four hundred acre indigo field that was close to the house.

词形变化

pigsticks present,singular,third-person pigsticking participle,present pigsticked participle,past pigsticked past pigstuck participle,past pigstuck past pig stick alternative pigsticks plural pig stick alternative

词源

词源 1
From pig + stick.
词源 2
From pig + stick.
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