单词 | fugleman |
释义 | fuglemann. a. A soldier especially expert and well drilled, formerly placed in front of a regiment or company as an example or model to the others in their exercises. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier who practises drill or evolution > [noun] > leader fugleman1804 1804 Morning Chron. in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1805) VIII. 117 Time has utterly deprived these stiffening limbs of mine of all power to spring through the rapid motions of the fugle~man. 1814 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 74 271 Like the flugelman of a regiment, he over-acts the movements which he would excite in others. 1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) iv. xi. 247 Several times was Antony obliged to stand forth like a fugleman and repeat the sign. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. v. v. 579 This Hohmann was now Flügelmann (‘fugleman’ as we have named it, leader of the file). 1886 H. F. Lester Under Two Fig Trees 229 With the captain as volunteer fugleman the colony quickly enrolled. b. transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > a pattern or model of conduct bysenc950 ensample1297 mirrora1300 ensamplerc1374 examplea1382 foregoer1382 exemplara1393 essamplerie1393 forbyseninga1400 patternc1425 spectaclec1430 precedent1535 spectable1535 foregoinga1586 modela1586 copya1616 leading card1635 patron saint1803 fugleman1814 fore-mark1863 parable1894 1814 J. Gilchrist Reason 44 After the example of some great gardener who has been made flugle-man to all generations. 1827 S. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 120/2 We propose Lord Nugent as a political flugelman. 1845 E. Miall in Nonconformist 5 33 What! must the state be fugleman to God's worshipers, that all may assume the same posture and bow alike? 1847 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) xliv. 388 Acting as fugleman for the approbation, which was judiciously thrown in from time to time. 1855 E. Forbes Lit. Papers vi. 168 Popular guides to public collections are seldom of more value than the explanations of the fugleman of a raree-show. 1875 F. Hall in Lippincott's Monthly Mag. 15 342/1 I picked out their fugleman, a well-grown boar, and fired. Derivatives ˈfuglemanship n. the office and duties of a fugleman. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier who practises drill or evolution > [noun] > leader > office of fuglemanship1845 1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches I. 65 Not the smallest regularity of fuglemanship or devotional drill-exercise. ˈfuglewoman n. a woman who gives a signal. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > [noun] > person who signalist1834 signaller1845 fuglewoman1868 sender1904 1868 Daily Tel. 27 May Miss Tickletoby..well acting as fugle~woman to her eight-and-twenty boarders, waves her virtuous pocket-handkerchief in response to the salutations from a drag full of roystering young guardsmen. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1804 |
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