| 单词 | cock-stele |
| 释义 | > as lemmascock-stele cock-stele n. [ < cock n.1 + steal n.1] historical in later use a stick thrown at a cockerel or rooster in the custom of cock-throwing (cock-throwing n.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > cock-throwing > [noun] > stick cock-stele1533 1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. iv. xvii. f. ccxlviiv Whansoeuer his new sling and his new stone..come onys into my handes, I shall turne his slynge into a cokstewe [read cokstele], and hys stone into a fether. a1535 T. More Pageant Verses in Compl. Wks. (1997) I. 3 I am called Chyldhod, in play is all my mynde, To cast a coyte, a cokstele, and a ball. 1864 Jrnl. Brit. Archaeol. Assoc. 20 343 A mimic of the manly sport of cock-squoiling, or throwing at the living bird, the dump being the equivalent of the cockstele, or stick. 2001 N. Orme Medieval Children (2003) v. 185 Boys' cock-fighting and the throwing of cock-steles at birds were common down to the eighteenth century. < as lemmas |
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