| 单词 | roving course |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroving course a. In sense 1a, as roving arrow, roving butt, roving course, roving shaft, etc. ΚΠ 1479Rowying shaftes [see sense 1a]. 1560 J. Heywood Fourth Hundred Epygrams xxxiii. sig. B What a shotte shootes he with a rouyng arrowe? 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxvi. 122 With Broad-arrow, or But, or Prick, or Rouing Shaft. 1789 J. Byng Diary 28 June in Torrington Diaries (1935) II. 106 Low stone pillars, which are the roving butts that Lord A: shoots his arrows at. 1801 T. Roberts Eng. Bowman vi. 154 The best length for the arrow, if used at less than roving distances, is twenty-seven inches including the pile. 1830 Archer's Man. (United Bowmen of Pa.) iii. 64 The archer, who counts by a shot at a roving mark, selects the mark for the next shot. 1939 P. H. Gordon New Archery iii. 21 Royal edict set aside places for shooting in the towns and provided long roving courses over the distances between towns. 1999 S. Fadala Trad. Archery 191 The finest roving point I've ever tried is the judo, and its story is worth telling. < as lemmas |
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