单词 | foot match |
释义 | > as lemmasfoot match ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing on foot > [noun] runningeOE foot race1592 foot strife?1611 foot match1660 foot racing1698 stadium1749 1660 R. Stapleton in tr. Juvenal Mores Hominum 447 These [games] consisted of five Exercises; casting the Javelin, flinging the Iron-ball, leaping, wrestling, and running foot-matches and Chariot-races. 1764 Ann. Reg. 1763 Chron. 116/1 A foot-match was lately run on Mousl-hurst by a shepherd against time. He was to run fifteen miles in an hour and a half, and performed it in an hour and twenty-eight minutes. 1825 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. Feb. 146/2 By this time the gentry begin to get merry; and starting up, they commence wrestling and foot-matches. 1907 Lancet-Clinic 28 Sept. 320/1 The case of a young man of eighteen, who, running in a foot match, had a violent pain in the knee. < as lemmas |
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