Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet LICK

Definition av LICK

1. slicka
2. klå, ge stryk

Exempel på hur man kan använda LICK i en mening

• In some rabbinical interpretations, Amalek is etymologised as , 'a people who lick (blood)', but most scholars regard the origin to be unknown.
• Eau glaise ("clay water") remains unattested, like the attested terre glaise ("clay soil"), but Ramsey and Stewart agree that Auglaize (and variants, implying "*aux glaises") is American French for "at the lick(s)", literally "at the clays", where wild beasts came to lick salt and minerals from the soil, filling the lacuna in standard French for a salt lick.
• It had formerly been known locally as Lickskillet derived from the practice of an old trapper who allegedly put his dirty dishes out for his dog to lick clean.
• The vicinity was originally known by European Americans as "Bullitt's Lick" for the salt licks discovered by surveyor Capt.
• The community was founded at a salt lick on the Buffalo Trace stretching from the Licking River to Drennon Springs.
• In September 1939, shortly after the start of World War II, the leader of German American Bund, Fritz Julius Kuhn, gave a speech to gathered members of the German American Bund and associated groups such as the World War I German Veteran league known as the Kyffhauser Bund, declaring that with the start of the war Adolf Hitler would "lick the world" in the new conflict.
• The name of "Blacklick" for the creek that bisects the town and the adjacent township probably means much the same as "brook of coal", a lick being a common synonym for brook and the "black" referring to outcroppings of coal seams on the stream banks and bed.
• The borough's name is of Native American origin, commonly believed to signify "narrow valley;" however native language scholars translate the name as "at the black lick" or "at the dirty lick," referring to mineral licks frequented by deer or other animals.
• The township was originally part of Bullskin Township until the two were separated, and Saltlick (or Salt Lick, as Ellis refers to it) Township created, in 1797.

Förberedelsen av sidan tog: 4 988,58 ms.