单词 | couteau |
释义 | couteaun. A large knife worn as a weapon. (Frequently used in English in 18th cent.) couteau de chasse (F.): hunting-knife. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > knife or dagger > [noun] saxa800 knifec1175 pricka1350 awla1387 daggerc1386 puncheonc1425 custil1447 punch?1480 murdererc1500 pointela1522 poniard1533 pounce1545 poignado?a1549 slaughmess1548 dirk1557 pistolesea1566 parazone1623 coutel1647 chiv1673 couteau1677 cuttoe1678 sticker1772 cultel1824 skewer1838 snicker1847 shiv1915 chib1929 1677 London Gaz. No. 1198. 4 A small Coûteau walking Sword. 1743 W. Shenstone Wks. & Lett. (1777) III. 73 In the Piazzas, Covent Garden, [pick-pockets]..come in large bodies, armed with couteaus. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xxi. 98 A couteau generally by his side. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxix. 261 Drawing a large cuteau from his side-pocket. 1782 Fashionable Follies I. 153 They each put on a long sword, instead of a couteau. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet III. x. 311 A gentleman, plainly dressed in a riding habit..without any arms except a couteau-de-chasse. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1677 |
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