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单词 bercelet
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berceletn.

Forms: Middle English barselette, barslett, Middle English barslet, bercelett, berselette, berslet, (transmission error) wersslete, Middle English breslet, Middle English–1600s bercelett.
Etymology: Corruption of Old French berseret hunting-dog, diminutive of bersier huntsman (in medieval Latin bersārius), < berser, bercer (in medieval Latin bersāre) to hunt, especially with the bow, originally to shoot with the bow. Thence also German berschen to shoot game, Italian bersaglio an archer's butt, whence bersagliere archer, sharp-shooter, rifleman.
Obsolete.
A hunting dog, a hound.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun]
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c1340 Alexander (Dublin) 786 Was neuer barslett in band more buxum to hys lord.
c1420 Anturs of Arth. iii Wyth bow, and wyth berselette Vndurneth the boes.
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. vi. 1610 (note) Wersslete.
c1475 (?c1425) Avowing of King Arthur (1984) l. 98 He [sc. the boar] brittunt bercelettus bold.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy vi. 2196 Ger hom bowe as a berslet & þi blithe seche.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. x. 443 Everyche day for his servant, and his Bercelett..twelve pence.
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