单词 | gone away |
释义 | gone awayint.n. Hunting (chiefly Fox-hunting). A. int. Used by a huntsman or huntswoman to indicate that the quarry, esp. a fox, has broken from a den, lair, or covert; see to go away 6 at go v. Phrasal verbs 1. Cf. tally-ho int. and n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > signals > cry [interjection] > cry soho1307 sa-ha1606 whoo-whoop1611 harka1616 hark away1737 yoax1762 tally-ho1773 yoicks1774 yoick1781 gone away1795 hyke1823 to-ho1825 yoi1826 heu-gase1827 1795 Sporting Mag. July 227/2 Tally ho—tally ho—tally ho... Gone away—gone away!.. See there—how the murtherer flies! 1803 W. Taplin Sporting Dict. I. 333 ‘Gone away!’—is the exhilarating communicative holloa! from one sportsman to another in stag or fox hunting, when the game breaks from large coverts. 1879 F. F. Whitehurst Hark Away xxxv. 285 Soon the cheery note of the horn, and the cry of ‘Gone away! gone away!’ was heard. 1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses & Other Stories 15 They hadn't even cast the dogs yet when Uncle Buck roared, ‘Gone away!’ 2002 B. Johnston Further Slice of Johnners v. 39 We would gallop madly off shouting ‘Gone away!’ and hoping the field would follow us. B. n. A cry of ‘gone away’; a shout or blast of a horn indicating a fox has broken from a den, lair, or covert. Cf. tally-ho int. and n. 1b.Earliest in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > signals > [noun] > cry huinga1250 sohoa1572 tue1602 shout and cry1609 shout and hoyes1609 chevyc1785 gone away1827 tally1886 the world > food and drink > hunting > signals > [noun] > signal on horn forloinc1369 motec1400 strakea1425 rechasec1425 recopec1425 morta1500 seekc1500 death note1575 recheat1575 gibbet1590 wind1596 relief1602 call1677 stroke1688 gone away1827 rattle1889 1827 R. Cobbold Valentine Verses 216 'Twould seem sometime I hastened to the chase... My dear young friends, behold the Gone Away! 1829 Sporting Mag. Feb. 303/2 An awkward..sunk fence and stone wall..planted all but the out-and-outers at the ‘gone away’. 1897 Country Life 13 Feb. 232/2 All at once a shrill ‘Gone away!’ is heard, and the fox is viewed away at the lower end. 1955 E. A. Powell Adventure Road ii. 17 Upon hearing the huntsman's horn sounding the ‘Gone away!’ he started out at steeplechase pace. 2006 H. J. Robards Foxhunting (2011) 74 The Field Master hears the long notes of the ‘gone away’, being on the high ground. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < int.n.1795 |
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