| 单词 | moose call |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmoose call moose call n. North American (a) a call made to attract moose, which imitates the animal's natural call; (b) a horn of birch bark or similar device used for making such calls. ΚΠ 1849 A. Gesner Industr. Resources Nova Scotia 222 The hunter enters the deep recesses of the forest, and imitates [a moose's] lowing in what is termed the ‘moose-call’. 1855 C. Hardy Sporting Adventures in New World I. viii. 162 The moose ‘call’ is a trumpet, made by rolling a sheet of birch-bark into a cone. 1904 C. G. D. Roberts Watchers of Trails 321 An old hunter..had made his joy complete by the gift of the bark ‘moose-call’ itself, a battered old tube with many ‘kills’ to its credit. 1961 H. Maclennan Rivers of Canada 94 I went over to a birch tree and cut off a strip of bark and made myself a moose call. 1965 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 29 Nov. 6/6 I'd suggest you go to your nearest sporting goods store and buy a moose call. < as lemmas |
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