单词 | hare-foot |
释义 | hare-footn. 1. Also hare's foot. The foot of a hare, or a foot resembling a hare's; spec. a long narrow foot found in some dogs. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > paw or foot > like foot of hare hare's foot1747 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > parts of > (parts of) leg and foot dew-claw1575 water claw1611 hare's foot1747 pastern1845 toe-tufta1858 trousersa1907 culotte1928 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Lepus (hares) > lepus europaeus (hare) > parts of scut1530 bunc1538 hare's foot1747 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xviii. 106 Better a bare foot, than none at all; that is to say, than not to be able to walk. 1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 329/2 Hare-foot, a long, narrow foot, carried far forward. 1945 C. L. B. Hubbard Observer's Bk. Dogs 161 American standards permit hare-feet. 1952 A. W. Hunter Leighton's Compl. Bk. Dog (rev. ed.) v. 80 Faults: [in Boxer]..hare's feet. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > [noun] > running > a runner > a swift runner hare-footc1410 flight1579 swift-foot1825 scud1857 sharpshins1883 rabbit1925 speedster1927 c1410 Chron. Eng. 899 in J. Ritson Anc. Eng. Metrical Romanceës (1802) II Harald, Godwyne sone He was cleped Harefot, for he was urnare god. a1491 J. Rous Hist. Regum Angliæ 105 Haroldus Harfote quasi levis in cursu ut lepus aliquis. 1652 (?c1437) Chron. in R. Twysden Hist. Anglicanæ Scriptores X 932 Propter levitatem pedum & cursus Haraldus Harefot communiter extitit appellatus. ΚΠ a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 555/6 Auencia,..harefot. a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 24 Harefote, avancia. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Pi/1 Harefoote, herb, lagopus. ΚΠ 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Haresfoot..also a kind of Bird.] 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Harefoot. 1. A bird. Ainsworth. 5. Used adverbially: swiftly. poetic. ΚΠ 1939 T. S. Eliot Family Reunion i. ii. 60 What of the terrified spirit Compelled..To rise toward the violent sun..Harefoot over the moon? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1300 |
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