| 单词 | battery-gunner |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbattery-gunner c. An oblong box or boat submerged to the brim, used in wildfowl shooting; = sink n.1 14. Also attributive, as battery-gunner, battery-shooting. U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > [noun] > place to shoot from standa1425 standinga1425 batterya1841 shooting-hole1850 butt1880 box1884 a1841 ‘J. Cypress, Jr.’ Sporting Scenes (1842) I. 198 A machine, or battery, is a wooden box of the necessary dimensions to let a man lie down upon his back, just tightly fitting enough to let him rise again. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Battery, a sort of boat used for duck-shooting... It is also called..a Surface-boat, Sink, or Box. 1866 Game Laws Va. in Fur, Fin & Feather (1872) 144 Any person shooting or using a skiff, box or battery while hunting wild fowl. 1874 J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl Shooting 71 I shall describe that in reference to battery-shooting. 1875 Fur, Fin & Feather 120 But this is nothing to the numbers slain by the battery; and we have known one battery to kill over three hundred fowl in a tide. 1875 Fur, Fin & Feather 122 The battery gunner..has a great advantage over the fowler who shoots from the shore. 1885 Forest & Stream 1 Jan. 441 One of the commonest and most successful methods of killing fowl along the seaboard is from batteries. 1885 Forest & Stream 1 Jan. 441 Some plan of action by which battery-shooting could be wholly done away with. < as lemmas |
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