| 单词 | grey-goose wing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrey-goose wing grey-goose wing n. = grey-goose shaft n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun] streale?680 floc893 arrowOE pileOE bolta1000 flanea1000 archer1297 shaftc1400 grey-goose wing1566 dorlach1575 goose-wing1630 shaftment1634 fate1700 timberc1879 1566 J. Partridge Worthie Hystorie Plasidas 996 Some from towre with bow in hande the gray-goose wing do sende. 1596 R. Johnson Famous Hist. Seauen Champions xiii. 126 Hys [sc. Alexander's] sturdy bowmen, whose conquering Gray-goose wing in former times hath terrified the cercled earth. 1644 J. Howell Englands Teares 3 My next neighbour France, (through whose bowells my gray-Goose wing flew so oft). 1702 Chevy-chase xlvi, in J. Dryden Sylvae (ed. 3) 256 Against Sir Hugh Montgomery so right his Shaft he set, The grey-goose-wing that was thereon in his Heart-Blood was wet. a1735 Earl of Haddington 40 Select Poems (1753) xi. 48 Robin ply'd his gray goose wing, And never dream'd of such a thing. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles vi. xxii. 252 Forth whistling came the grey-goose wing. 1921 Cent. Mag. Apr. 698/1 The shaft dragged through the torn flesh, and the gray goose-wing came out scarlet dyed. 2002 W. Van Zwoll Hunter's Guide Accurate Shooting (2004) i. i. 4 The French learned quickly to fear the hiss of the ‘gray goose wing’. < as lemmas |
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