| 单词 | rack-bent |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrack-bent rack-bent adj. rare bent by means of a rack and pinion. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > archer's weapons > [adjective] > of crossbow: bent rack-bent1694 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. xxxi. 124 His Back, like an overgrown rack-bent Cross-Bow [Fr. comme une arbaleste de passe]. 1737 J. Ozell in tr. F. Rabelais Wks. II. v. 33 (note) Prodigious rack-bent Cross-bows. 1955 J. M. Cohen tr. F. Rabelais Gargantua & Pantagruel xxiii. 90 He threw the dart, the bar, the stone, the javelin, the boar-spear, and the halbert; drew a bow to the full, bent by main force great rack-bent cross-bows. < as lemmas |
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