| 单词 | ducking-punt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasducking-punt The catching or shooting of wild ducks. Also attributive, as ducking-punt; ducking-gun n. a fowling-piece carrying a heavy charge a long way, so as to kill a large number of ducks in a flock at one shot. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > [noun] > shooting other birds ducking1589 pouting1672 partridging1682 cocking1686 teal-shooting1874 sniping1875 the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shooting equipment > [noun] > shot-gun or fowling-piece > type of turnabout1801 twelve1804 stanchion-gun1815 Joe Manton1816 Joe Manton1816 ducking-gun1823 punt gun1824 Purdey1830 shore-gun1841 woodcock gun1858 seven-bore1859 twelve-bore1859 twelve-gauge1859 choke1875 choke-bore1875 cripple-stopper1881 over-and-under1889 ten-gauge1894 ducker1896 tschinke1910 under-and-over1911 over-under1913 side by side1947 1589 E. Hogan in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 159 His..pastime in ducking with water Spaniels. 1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) i. i, in Wks. I. 5 Keepe companie with none but the archers of Finsburie? or the citizens, that come a ducking to Islington ponds? a1634 J. Day Peregrinatio Scholastica (Sloane 3150) f. 33v There wives drewe them..into the feilds a duckeing, wth there water spaniells in sommer. 1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers II. iii. 41 The French ducking-gun. 1880 N. H. Bishop Four Months in Sneak-box 7 He constructed a new ducking-punt with a low paddle-wheel at its stern. < as lemmas |
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