| 单词 | long bullets |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslong bullets long bullets n. now chiefly historical = long bowl n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > bowls or bowling > [noun] > forms of long bowl1497 byles1530 trule1568 portbowls1585 long bullets1679 boccia1827 bocce1828 trailing1902 boule1924 bias bowls1939 pétanque1955 1679 Ld. Blayney Let. 30 Aug. in Cal. MSS Marquess of Ormonde (Hist. MSS Comm.) V. 195 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 4116) (1908) LX. 219 All the diversions I can find is playing quoits with Joe Ashbury and long bullets with your butler Harry. 1723 in Rep. Rec. Commissioners Boston (1883) VIII. 172 Throwing, Rolling or flingin of the Bullet, Comonly called Throwing the Long Bullet. 1732 J. Swift Pastoral Dialogue viii, in Misc. III. 37 When you saw Tady at long-bullets play. 1820 Western Rev. 2 34 Round balls for a game which may have been similar to long bullets. 1913 H. B. Wallace Hist. Paxton viii. 76 A match of Long Bullets, a game played by throwing as far as possible iron balls weighing from one to five pounds. 2011 J. Thorn Baseball in Garden of Eden 314 A modern Irish game of road bowling is called, in the County Armagh term, bullets or long bullets. < as lemmas |
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