| 单词 | half fifteen |
| 释义 | > as lemmashalf fifteen half fifteen n. Real Tennis and Tennis (now rare) a handicap of one stroke or point given at the beginning of the second, fourth, and every subsequent alternate game of a set.Cf. bisque n.2 1a, fifteen adj. and n. Additions. Π 1679 T. Shadwell True Widow 8 Prig. Engag'd! no faith let's make a match at Tennis to day... How will that Gentleman and you play with Stanmore, and I keep his back hand at Gibbonses? Bell. I do not know his Play. Prigg. We'll take a Bisk of you. Bell. No, you shan't. Prigg. You'r half fifteen better than I to a Grain. 1756 F. Greville & F. Greville Maxims, Characters, & Refl. 200 He had a match at tennis offered him, in which he would have had about two bisques the advantage, but wanted half fifteen and refused it. 1908 A. W. Myers Compl. Lawn Tennis Player 30 Mr. A. gives Mr. B. half-fifteen, not because he thinks he can give it but because he knows that he cannot. 1965 Guardian 3 Dec. 15/3 Willis won, off a handicap of half fifteen and a bisque, but only after two hard hours of toil. < as lemmas |
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