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单词 pricking forth
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pricking forth
4. The footprint or track of a hare or (rarely) some other animal; = prick n. 1c. Hence: the tracking of a hare by its footprints (in early use also pricking forth). Obsolete.
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society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [noun] > left by the passage of something > of a person or animal > of a rabbit or hare
prickinga1425
footstallc1475
fostal?c1475
prick1598
fare?1610
a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) 112 He shulde..nought rechate, till..he fynde her poyntynge, or pryckynge.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lx. 169 If he can finde the footing of the Hare (which we call pricking).
1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) vii. xxxiii. 696 By these traces or footsteps, he shall by little and little picke out which way she is gone, and this amongst hunts-men is called the pricking forth of the hare.
1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 281 The prints and prickings of sundry sorts of beasts, might easily be discerned.
1758 T. Fairfax Compl. Sportsman 97 When the Huntsman finds his hounds at a default..let him hunt on..looking narrowly on the ground as he goes, to see to find the footing or pricking of the hare.
1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 262 These tracks were sometimes lost..; but by careful pricking, they were hit upon again.
1847 R. S. Surtees Hawbuck Grange ii. 48 At length even pricking failed.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale 65 Prickin's, the footsteps of a hare.
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