| 单词 | foxcover |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfox-cover a. Hunting. Woods, undergrowth, and bushes, that serve to shelter or conceal wild animals and game; = covert n. 3. Also in combination, as fox-cover. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > [noun] > covert covert1494 cover1719 bouquet1875 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 182 Never frighted Hare fled to Cover..with more Terror of Mind than I to this Retreat. 1781 P. Beckford Thoughts on Hunting xix. 247 You hunt a cover that is full of foxes. 1796 A. Duncan Mariner's Chron. (1805) III. 275 The rhinoceros..broke cover at last and appeared on the plain. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 55 She wields the gun, or beats the cover. 1877 R. H. Roberts Harry Holbrooke of Holbrooke Hall ii. 25 The fox trots out..but, not liking the aspect of affairs, turns back to the cover. fox-cover fox-cover n. ΚΠ 1831 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) I. 371 Who..turns his farm into a fox-cover. < as lemmas |
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