单词 | bident |
释义 | bidentn. 1. An instrument or weapon with two prongs. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > 2 or 3-pronged spear fuskin?1578 bident1675 trident1693 sea-pike1870 1675 C. Cotton Poet. Wks. (1765) 232 The blust'ring Aeo for his Bident. 1851 A. H. Layard Pop. Acct. Discov. Nineveh v. 94 A half-moon, a bident, and a horned cap. 2. A two-year-old sheep. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > defined by age > two years old twinter1404 hoggerel1530 two-shear1788 four-tooth1793 bident1881 1881 Thurn in Academy No. 491. 252 The timid bident has usurped the place of the bellower. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1675 |
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