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单词 bird spit
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bird spit
bird spit n. (a) a spit for roasting birds on; (b) figurative a rapier (obsolete).
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bird spitc1450
rapier1503
tuck1508
Spanish sword?1533
walking rapier?1620
single rapier1709
flamberg1885
c1450 Treat. Fishing in J. McDonald et al. Origins of Angling (1963) 149 Take a bryd spytte & bryn hym.
1599 G. Silver Paradoxes Def. sig. A5v When the battels are ioyned..there is no roome for them to drawe their Bird-spits.
1607 G. Wilkins Miseries Enforced Marriage in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) IX. 563 Put up your bird-spit, tut, I fear it not.
1893 County Gentleman 14 Jan. 47/3 The broadsword was the national weapon rather than the ‘bird-spit and frog-pricking poignard’ in which foreigners excelled.
1926 Daily Mail 3 Nov. 15/4 On a home-made bird-spit—you can do wonders with a piece or two of old iron and some wire—I roast the snipe.
2004 Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 28 Mar. 2 g/6 Fireplace wrought iron meat grill..; rooster weathervane; bird spit with 3 penny feet; [etc].
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