单词 | out-wing |
释义 | † out-wingn. Chiefly Scottish. Obsolete. A wing or flank of an army. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > part of army by position > [noun] > wing or flank wingc1400 horn1533 out-wingc1540 flank1548 point1550 sleeve1574 left1693 right1694 pivot flank1786 reverse flank1792 wheeling flank1796 c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. vii. x. f. 87v/1 At last the out wyngis of Romanis [L. extrema Romanorum cornua] be multitude of pepil ouirset thair ennymes fornens thaym. 1596 T. Lodge Margarite of Amer. sig. B Embattailed in due order, the pikemen in a Macedonian phalanx, the horsemen in their out-wings. 1633 E. Ford Montelyon ii. 21 The Assyrians had made such a slaughter amongst the outwings of the Army, that most of them were slaine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.c1540 |
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