Definition of "put"

Philander went into the next room […] and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.

1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients

‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess‎

Theſe Verſes Originally Greek, were put in Latin,

1670, John Milton, “The [First] Book”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , page 11

All this is ingeniously and ably put.

1846, Julius Hare, The Mission of the Comforter

His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.

1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]

No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume IV, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, John 15:13, page 280

Put the perceptions and you put the mind.

1708-1710, George Berkeley, Philosophical Commentaries or Common-Place Book

Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back. When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to say.

1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg

These wretches put us upon all mischief.

1722, Jonathan Swift, The Last Speech of Ebenezer Elliston

Thank him who puts me loath to this revenge

1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, line 386

Put me not to use the carnal weapon in my own defence.

1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co.

A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price.

c. 1900, Universal Cyclopaedia Entry for Stock-Exchange

The Stag's was a Forc'd put, and a Chance rather than a Choice.

1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […]

Among the in-door amusements of the costermonger is card-playing, at which many of them are adepts. The usual games are all-fours, all-fives, cribbage, and put.

1851, Henry Mayhew, “Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor

Queer Country-puts extol Queen Bess's reign,And of lost hospitality complain.

1733, James Bramston, The Man of Taste

The old put wanted to make a parson of me, but d—n me, thinks I to myself, I'll nick you there, old cull; the devil a smack of your nonsense shall you ever get into me.

1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 244

The Captain has a hearty contempt for his father, I can see, and calls him an old put, an old snob, an old chaw-bacon, and numberless other pretty names.

1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 11, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848

Any number of varlet to be had for a few ducats and what droll puts the citizens seem in it all!

1870, Frederic Harrison, “The Romance of the Peerage: Lothair,”, in Fortnightly Review

And Mrs. Penny-a-hoist Pim, said Mr. Gorman. That old put, said Mr. Nolan.

1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press