chopped billet
→
base for beheading
8 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | block | |
| meaning 1 | block, chunk | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | base for beheading | This block was made for the execution of Lord Lovat in 1746 for his part in the Jacobite Rebellion. |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Finnish | |
| lexeme 1 | pölkky | |
| lexeme 2 | mestauspölkky | |
| meaning 1 | log, stock, block of wood | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | base for beheading | Miekalla teloitettaessa mestauspölkky ei ole välttämätön, vaan mestaus voitiin suorittaa teloitettavan ollessa polvistuneena, kuin rukoukseen When executing with a sword, a log is not necessary, but the execution could be performed with the person to be executed kneeling, as in prayer. |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme | billot | |
| meaning 1 | large section of cylindrical or squarely cut wood, usually rising to the support height, and the upper part of which has a flat surface | L’homme revenait après avoir enfermé le chien et soigneusement calé avec un billot de bois la porte contre laquelle la bête se ruait en grondant. The man was returning after having locked the dog and carefully propped up with a block of wood the door against which the beast rushed, growling. |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | (in particular) a block of wood on which the head of a person sentenced to beheading was leaning in order to execute him | Il mit sa tête sur le billot et reçut le coup fatal. He put his head on the block and received the fatal blow. |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme | Block | |
| meaning 1 | block of wood | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | base for beheading | |
| reference | Moskal'skaja (ed.) 2001 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ingush | |
| lexeme | гар (gar) | |
| meaning 1 | log | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | executioner's block | |
| reference | Kurkiev 2004: 100 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Italian | |
| lexeme | ceppo | |
| meaning 1 | Lower part, foot, of the woody plants, from which the trunk rises and from where the roots branch off and often many suckers are born | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | Large piece of trunk, cut and trimmed, which is used to sit on it or to perform some work on it (breaking the flesh, supporting the anvil, etc.); in particular, the pile on which the heads of those sentenced to death were cut off | |
| reference | Vocabolario Treccani | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Old East Slavic | |
| lexeme | плаха (plaha) | |
| meaning 1 | chopped billet | А ... пошлина имати ... с телеги по плахе and take the duty ... one block from the cart (firewood) |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | base for beheading | И тем (татям) будет от короля топор да плаха and those (thieves) will receive an ax and a block (= execution) from the king |
| reference | SRJa XI-XVII: 15: 79 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | плаха (plaha) | |
| meaning 1 | half of a log split along | Дрова были сырые, горели натужно.. Желто-красный огонь трепетно обнимал толстые плахи и злился, змеиными языками лизал кирпич низкого свода [печи]. (М. Горький) The firewood was damp, it burned strainedly .. The yellow-red fire tremblingly embraced the thick blocks and was angry, licking the brick of the low vault [of the stove] with snake tongues. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | wooden block on which in the old days they cut off the head of a condemned to death | Как скоро Пугачев готов был повалиться на плаху, брат мой отворотился, чтобы не видеть взмаха топора (Дмитриев И. И. Взгляд на мою жизнь) As soon as Pugachev was ready to fall on the block, my brother turned away so as not to see the swing of the ax |
| reference | BAS: 9, 1346 | |
| comment | ||