Read full poem →So braver notes the storm-cock sings
To start the rusted wheel of things,
And brutes in field and brutes in pen
Dictionary Entry
To begin an action, process, or journey; to set in motion.
In a Sentence
“Let's start the race now, on the count of three!”
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Origin
Old English 'steortan' meaning 'to leap, move suddenly, begin'.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “start”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →So braver notes the storm-cock sings
To start the rusted wheel of things,
And brutes in field and brutes in pen
Read full poem →See lilies spring, and sudden verdure rise;
And start, amidst the thirsty wilds, to hear
New falls of water murmuring in his ear.
Read full poem →Earth shakes her nodding towers, the ground gives way,
And the pale ghosts start at the flash of day!
Read full poem →Under the roses I hid my heart.
Why would it sleep not? why should it start,
When never a leaf of the rose-tree stirred?
Read full poem →Where shall we go?
Love, shall we start or stay,
Or sail or row?
Read full poem →The fountain forces, whence like steeds that start
Leap forth the powers of earth and fire and air,
Read full poem →"Was such a request ever made to a knight?"
"And where are your legs," asked one, "if you start,
You may be inside the town gates to-night."
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