| 释义 |
see-ho
Also 6 se-howe, 7 seehoo.
[? f. see v. + ho int.; but cf. sa-ha, soho.]
A cry used in coursing, on first view of the hare.
a1500Mourn. Hare 20 in Hartshorne Anc. Metr. Tales (1829) 166 The furste man that me may see Anon he cryes, ‘se howe, se howe’. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Sohoe, Seehoo, said aloud at the starting a hare. 1841Hewlett Par. Clerk I. 128 ‘Seeho!’ called out the squire, as if he'd found a hare sitting. 1862H. Kingsley Ravenshoe xiii, At this moment there came a ‘See Ho!’ from Charles; in the next a noble hare had burst from a tangled mass of brambles at his feet. |