α. see bird n. and bolt n.1
β. also 1500s burboulte, 1500s–1600s burbolt.
单词 | bird bolt |
释义 | bird boltn.α. see bird n. and bolt n.1 β. also 1500s burboulte, 1500s–1600s burbolt. Now historical. A bolt (bolt n.1 1) used for shooting birds. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shooting equipment > [noun] > bird-bolt bird bolt1440 quarrela1852 bolted arrows1864 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 50 Brydbolt, or burdebolt, epitilium. a1450 Treat. Falconry (Durham Record Office D/X/76/7) l. 90 in Studier i Modern Språkvetenskap (1972) 4 26 (MED) When þu come þer, tak þi fesaunt and lat a man sit in a buse with þi fesaunt a litill fro þin hawke als fer as þu may schote a brid-bolt. a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iii. ii. sig. D.iijv He hath in his head. C. Cust. As much braine as a burbolt. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 89 To take those things for Bird-bolts, that you deeme Cannon bullets. View more context for this quotation 1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind viii. 209 The wooden headed bird-bolts of the Middle Ages. 1907 A. M. Tozzer Compar. Study Mayas & Lacandones 59 The bird bolt is made of a hollow reed. 2016 S. Cook Forest Lacandon Maya vi. 316/1 The bird bolt and the foreshaft was made from the wood of the subin. CompoundsΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > [noun] > limit of distance or reach > to which a thing may be shot > specific bowshotc1300 bow-draughtc1400 buck-shot1447 flight-shot1455 gun-shot1532 bird bolt shot1570 cannon shot?1571 pistol shot1608 bolt's-shoot1677 rifle shot1803 gun-reach1825 rifle range1830 gun-range1852 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2286/2 Those playnes and downes, where was no wood neare them by a mile, nor hedge neither, but onely one, which was a byrdbolt shot of. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §249 Some Bird-bolt shot, or more, from the River of Seane. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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