| 单词 | shooting-stick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshooting-stick shooting-stick n. (a) Printing a piece of hard wood or metal which is struck by a mallet to loosen or tighten the quoins in a chase; (b) slang = shooting-iron n. (obsolete); (c) a walking-stick with a handle that may be opened to form an impromptu seat, first used by shooters. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > tools shooting-stick1683 bodkin1846 planer1858 straight-edge1888 persuader1898 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] handgun1411 piece1575 small arms1685 popper1751 shooting-iron1775 pelter1827 squib1839 shooter1840 shooting-stick1845 Betsy1856 smoke-wagon1891 rod1903 gat1904 belt gun1905 roscoe1914 smoke-stick1927 heat1928 heater1929 smoke-pole1929 John Roscoe1932 the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > something to lean on > staff to lean on > shooting-stick shooting seat1895 shooting-stick1926 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 31 The Shooting-stick must be made of Box. 1845 E. J. Wakefield Adventure in N.Z. I. xi. 319 Every article of trade with the natives has its slang term,—in order that they may converse with each other respecting a purchase without initiating the natives into their calculations, thus pigs and potatoes were respectively represented by ‘grunters’ and ‘spuds’, guns..by ‘shooting-sticks’. 1866 ‘F. Kirkland’ Pictorial Bk. Anecd. 237/2 Sambo..fell back in confusion when the ‘shooting stick’ was brandished toward his own breast. 1882 J. Southward Pract. Printing (1884) 68 The shooting-stick..transmits the pressure from the mallet to the quoin. 1926 E. P. Oppenheim Golden Beast i. xvii. 163 Judith had already disappeared, swinging her shooting stick in her hand. 1929 H. V. Morton In Search of Scotl. v. § 6. 137 The Mayfair and Belgravia clans sit their shooting-sticks with renewed expectation. 1967 Guardian 23 May 2/6 The shooting sticks will prod the roots of every stately garden. < as lemmas |
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