| 单词 | a quoit's distance |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa quoit's distance b. a quoit's cast: the distance to which a quoit is commonly thrown. Also † a quoit's distance. Now rare (historical and archaic).In later use chiefly with reference to Homer's Iliad. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > [noun] > limit of distance or reach > to which a thing may be thrown cast1387 a quoit's castc1425 penny-stone cast1487 throw1553 a quoit's distance1644 c1425A cotes caste [see sense 2aα. ]. 1478 W. Worcester Itineraries 76 Distans per spacium vnius coytyscast. 1595 A. Copley Wits Fittes & Fancies vi. 173 Offring one day to runne for a wager with a familiar friend of his, and to giue him a quoytes-cast ods before him. a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 10 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) The Welch Prophet could not see a quoits cast from him. 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 22 Every acute reader..will be ready..to ding the book a coits distance from him. 1691 J. Dunton Voy. round World I. 58 This zame Woman having never avore bin above a stones julk, or a Quoits cast out of her Parish bounds, hapned to have a young Vellow come a Zutering to her, a matter o' zum twenty mile off. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xxiii. 648 Menelaus..fell A full quoit's cast behind. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad II. xxiii. 344 He fell as far behind As a quoit's cast. 1927 Classical Jrnl. 22 330 The distances to which various kinds of missiles could be thrown served as standards of measure. 'A stone's throw' and 'a quoit's cast' must have been common. < as lemmas |
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