词汇 | creasing |
词源 | creasing. (1) A painful method of capturing a wild horse by shooting it in the crest of the neck above the cervical vertebrae and stunning it. The practice is recorded in Texas as early as 1820. (2) Barely wounding someone: “He just creased him.” |
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