单词 | bird spit |
释义 | > as lemmasbird spit bird spit n. (a) a spit for roasting birds on; †(b) figurative a rapier (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > sword > [noun] > rapier 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]. < as lemmas |
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