| 单词 | hunting down |
| 释义 | > as lemmashunting down a. Change-ringing. To alter the position of (a bell) in successive changes so as to shift it by degrees from the first place to the last ( hunting up), or from the last to the first ( hunting down). Also absol. or intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > bell-ringing > [verb (intransitive)] > go through all the changes > position in changes lead1671 dodge1684 hunt1684 to make places1874 1684 R. Howlett School Recreat. 92 So by turns, 'till every Bell being hunted up and down, comes into its proper Place again. 1684 R. Howlett School Recreat. 96 Whatsoever Bells you follow when you Hunt up, the same Bells in the same order you must follow in Hunting down. 1880 C. A. W. Troyte in Grove Dict. Music I. 334 The bells work in regular order from being first bell to being last, striking two blows as first and two as last: this is called by ringers ‘hunting up and down’. < as lemmas |
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