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单词 land-fight
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land-fight
a. General attributive passing into adj., with the sense ‘belonging or attached to, or characteristic of, the land; living, situated, taking place, or performed upon land (as opposed to water or sea); terrestrial’: as in land-admiral, land-battery, land-battle, land-communication, land-company, land-engine, land-fight, land-goods, land-gunner, †land-herd, land-journey, land-life, land-monster, land-passage, land-pilot, land-plant, land-power, land-prospect, land-siren, land-soldier, land-spout, land-trade, land-travel, land-wages, land-war, land warfare, etc.
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society > armed hostility > military power > [noun]
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] > tiller of soil
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1490 Act 7 Hen. VII c. 1. §1 If any Captain..give them not their full Wages..except for Jackets for them that receive Land-wages.
1595 E. Spenser Colin Clouts come Home Againe sig. B3v The fields In which dame Cynthia her landheards fed.
1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iii. vi. 285 Impatient of land-life, they lanch againe into their water.
1625 Purchas (title) Purchas his Pilgrimes contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells.
1630 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime (new ed.) vi. 51 I intreated him for a commission and patent for a land company in Flanders.
1637 J. Milton Comus 11 To find out that..Would overtask the best land-pilots art.
1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 488 Their Land-voyage from Pekin to Goa.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 4 Apr. (1974) VIII. 149 I made him merry with telling him how many land-Admiralls we are to have this year.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. To Rdr. A most useful Instrument for all Land and Sea Gunners.
1682 T. Southerne Loyal Brother iii, in Wks. (1721) I. 44 Curse on these land-syrens!
1694 London Gaz. No. 3023/3 They..are to be provided for in their way as Land-Soldiers are in their march.
1695 M. Prior Eng. Ballad 4 The Water-Nymphs are all unkind, We hope the Land-Nymphs are not so.
1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks II. v. 289 Anchoring at Sea, remote from all Land-Prospect.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 395 The nature..of these land spouts.
1785 J. Phillips Treat. Inland Navigation p. vi Roads for land-communication and carriage.
1817 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 316 Of the lords of the Admiralty, three of the sea officers, and one of the land lords, were efficient officers.
1822 Brunel Specif. Patent 4683 3 The common governor usually applied to land engines cannot act regularly at sea.
1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. vi. 335 Being exposed to the fire of the land-batteries as well as of the shipping.
1852 G. Grote Hist. Greece X. ii. lxxxii. 665 If the preparations for land-warfare were thus stupendous, those for sea-warfare were fully equal if not superior.
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 300 The foliage of land-plants.
1928 Observer 1 Apr. 14/3 Sea-power took the place of land-power in the sixteenth century.
1957 Encycl. Brit. X. 182 h/1 In theory a branch of geopolitics,..geo-strategy treated warfare as total, embracing the entire populations and resources of the contesting states... It helped to make Germany the first country to realize that airpower could take a position alongside seapower and landpower.
1962 Listener 29 Mar. 543/1 A world which, seen from Moscow, is divided into three or four land masses, and a number of similar areas which can be dominated by land power.
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