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Synonyymisanakirja: forelock

forelock

1. otsatukka, karvoitus, tukka, hiukset, hiussuortuva, kihara, kiehkura, otsakiehkura.

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Riimisanakirja: forelock

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Käännökset: forelock

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otsatukka

• otsatukka

• otsaharja

forelock englanniksi

• The part of a person's hairstyle which covers the forehead.

• 1674, (w), (w), Book IV, lines 300-303, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1674)/Book_IV

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:

• 1734, w:Quran The Koran: Commonly Called the Alkoran of Mohammed'', translated by (w), Sura 96, Congealed Blood, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7440/pg7440-images.html

Doth he not know that GOD seeth? / Assuredly. Verily, if he forbear not, we will drag him by the forelock, / the lying, sinful forelock. / And let him call his council to assistance: / we also will call the infernal guards to cast him into hell.

• 1896, w:Alfred Edward Housman|A. E. Housman, (w), XXXVIII, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5720/5720-h/5720-h.htm

Warm with the blood of lads I know / Comes east the sighing air. / / It fanned their temples, filled their lungs, / Scattered their forelocks free;

• 1978, (w), Nocturnes for the King of Naples, New York: St. Martin's Press, Chapter VIII, p. 135,

This little boy, still flicking his head to one side between sentences though the long blond forelock that once excused the tic had been cut (..)

• The part of a horse's (or similar animal's) mane that lies on its forehead.

• 1898, (w), in A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories, translated by (w), New York: Macmillan: 1898, p. 146, https://archive.org/details/learofsteppesoth00turgrich

(..) 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.

• (quote-text)|title=(w)|chapter=5|url=http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100011h.html|passage=Even Boxer was vaguely troubled. He set his ears back, shook his forelock several times, and tried hard to marshal his thoughts; but in the end he could not think of anything to say.

• A wedge pushed through a hole at the end of a bolt to hold it in place.

• To fix in place with a forelock (wedge)

• (quote-text)|title=(w)|chapter=14|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4092/4092-h/4092-h.htm|passage=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.

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