| 单词 | jackal cry |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjackal cry C1. General attributive, objective, and parasynthetic (in sense 1), as jackal cry, jackal-hunting, jackal skin, etc.; jackal-headed adj. ΚΠ 1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 76 The Seamen carry thither all the very same Commodities which they carry into Mingrelia..; Honey, Wax, Leather, and Chacal-Skins [Fr. des peaux de Chacal]. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IX xxvi. 18 Nor give my voice to Slavery's Jackall cry. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) Introd. 43 Endless processions of jackal-headed gods. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 19 Apr. 4/3 His chapters..on jackal-hunting are excellent. 1980 Botswana Notes & Rec. 12 103 The women had made matching skirts and head coverings, and some wore hats of jackal fur. 2003 Express & Echo (Exeter) (Nexis) 13 Nov. 21 A purpose-bred pack of fox hounds kept in kennels, fed summer and winter, and organised for a season's hunting is a completely different thing from a wild jackal pack. < as lemmas |
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