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单词 hoyle
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hoylen.1

Archery. Obsolete.
A mark made use of by archers when shooting at rovers (see rover n.2).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [noun] > archery target
bercelc1440
butt1440
shell1497
rover1511
standing pricka1525
round1531
popinjay1548
prick-mark1553
Turk1569
twelve (also twenty-four) score prick1569
garden butt1572
parrot1578
clout1584
hoyle1614
shaw-fowl1621
prick wanda1650
goal1662
1614 C. Brooke Ghost Richard III ii. lxiii. sig. F4v Gold sets vp markes, Hoyles, pricks for any Ayme.
1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxvi. 122 [Robin Hood and his men] At long-buts, short, and Hoyles, each one could cleaue the pin.
1801 T. Roberts Eng. Bowman 226 Hoyle.
1845 Anecd. Archery Glossary 388 Hoyle, a short moving mark.

Derivatives

hoyling n. and adj.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [adjective] > types of target arrow
hoyling1590
footed1844
1590 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1861) III. 68 My vewe bowe wth the redd handle and all my hoyling arrowes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

Hoylen.2

Brit. /hɔɪl/, U.S. /hɔɪl/
Etymology: < the name of Edmond Hoyle (1672–1769), author of several works on card games (the earliest, on whist, dated 1742): often cited typically for an authority on card-playing.
according to Hoyle: according to the highest authority, in accordance with strict rules.
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > conformity to or with a pattern, etc. > in conformity with or according to [phrase] > according to rule > strictly
according to Cocker1785
according to Hoyle1906
1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million (1916) 14 The financial loss of a dollar sixty-five, all so far fulfilled according to Hoyle.
1945 A. A. Ostrow Compl. Card Player p. vii It has been the custom to call books of rules on card and board games ‘Hoyles’, so that ‘according to Hoyle’ has come to mean ‘according to accepted rules’.
1962 R. Barker Clue for Murder v. 38 This one [sc. murder]'s right out of the book—strictly according to Hoyle.
1965 J. M. Cain Magician's Wife (1966) xix. 147 I want our marriage to be strictly on the beam—the way it is in the books, absolutely according to Hoyle.
1971 Melody Maker 21 Aug. 34/7 If everything goes according to Hoyle, I'll go into semi-retirement there.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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