单词 | battue |
释义 | battuen. 1. The driving of game from cover (by beating the bushes, etc. in which they lodge) to a point where a number of sportsmen wait to shoot them. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun] > beating, etc. stablyc1400 ring-walk1575 breviting1600 battue1816 beat1876 bush-drive1899 1816 Gentleman's Mag. 86 i. 414 The keen Sportsman..and a favoured few, on a set day, have the Grand Battu. 1860 All Year Round 1 Sept. 485 A battue is a contrivance for killing the largest quantity of game in the smallest time, with the least amount of trouble, by a small select party. 2. transferred. a. A beat up, a thorough search. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [noun] > types of search or searching > rummaging or thorough searching > an act of oversearch1490 rummage1733 battue1854 poke-out1874 1854 N. Wiseman Fabiola i. viii. 43 Ordered a grand general battue through every part of the house where Syra had been. b. Wholesale slaughter, esp. of unresisting crowds. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun] sleightc893 wal-slaught?a900 qualeeOE deathOE swordc1000 morthOE slaughta1225 destroyingc1300 drepingc1300 martyrdomc1325 murderc1325 mortc1330 sleighterc1330 slaughter1338 iron and firea1387 murraina1387 manslaughtera1400 martyre?a1400 quella1425 occision?a1430 decease1513 destruction1526 slaughting1535 butchery?1536 butchering1572 massacrea1578 slaughterdom1592 slaughtering1597 carnage1600 massacring1600 slaughtery1604 internecion1610 decimationa1613 destroy1616 trucidation1623 stragea1632 sword-wrack1646 interemption1656 carnifice1657 panolethry1668 butcher work1808 bloodbath1814 populicide1824 man-slaughtering1851 battue1864 mass murder1917 genocide1944 overkill1957 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. iv. 162 The great battue of St. Bartholomew's Day. 3. The game thus driven from cover. ΚΠ 1849 in B. H. Smart Walker's Pronouncing Dict. (ed. 3) This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1816 |
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