forelock

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The part of a person's hairstyle which covers the forehead.
    — His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks / Round from his parted forelock manly hung / Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad:
  2. A wedge pushed through a hole at the end of a bolt to hold it in place.
  3. The part of a horse's (or similar animal's) mane that lies on its forehead.
    — […] the gates themselves slowly parted, there appeared a large horse's head, with a plaited forelock under a decorated yoke, and slowly there rolled into the road a small cart, like those driven by horse-dealers, and higglers.
动词 v.
  1. To fix in place with a forelock (wedge)
    — At one extremity each pair was firmly connected by a short, massive, iron link, of about two feet in length; and, at its opposite end, a large eye-bolt was driven into each stick, where it was securely forelocked.

词形变化

forelocks plural forelocks plural forelocks present,singular,third-person forelocking participle,present forelocked participle,past forelocked past

词汇关系

衍生词
forelocked forelocking take time by the forelock tug one's forelock pull one's forelock touch one's forelock

词源

词源 1
From Middle English *forelock, *forelok, from Old English forelocc, equivalent to fore- + lock.
词源 2
From Middle English forelok, equivalent to fore- + lock.
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