单词 | snaphance |
释义 | snaphancen. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > brigand > [noun] brigand1421 snaphance1539 thief errant1553 freebooter1570 filibuster1591 bandit1594 Robin Hood1597 mosser1651 moss-trooper1651 free-rider1821 cateran1870 α. β. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark v. f. 37 Euen as thoughe a sorte of snaphaunses set all on mischiefe..would make this peticion.1609 R. Armin Hist. Two Maids More-clacke sig. A4 He that shall marry thee, is matcht y'faith, To English rash, or to a Dutch snap-haunce, You will strike fire with words.1539 C. Tunstall Serm. Palme Sondaye D viij b To make this realme a praye to al venturers, al spoylers, al snaphanses, all forlornehopes. 1541 T. Paynell tr. Felicius Conspiracie of Catiline xxiii. f. 43 Thynkynge..that huge routes of snaphances and hopelostes, from all partes of Italy wolde resorte to hym. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 974/2 He therefore required the Prince, to ridde the Realme of those Snappehaunses. 2. a. An early form of flintlock used in muskets and pistols (cf. 3); also, the hammer of this.Frequently contrasted with firelock (= wheel-lock), but the distinction is not always observed. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > lock > types of firelock1544 snap-work1568 rewet1572 snaphance1588 French lock1641 wheel-lock1670 flintlock1683 matchlock1688 percussion gun-lock1808 percussion lock1819 rebounder1871 rebounding lock1871 miquelet1926 α. β. 1594 H. Barwick Breefe Disc. Weapons 22 A Harquebuze with a snaphaunce.1607 G. Markham Cavelarice ii. 121 A pistoll which goes with a Snaphaunce.1642 E. Harwood Advice sig. D Whether their Peeces to bee with Fire-locks or Snaphaunces, is questionable.1588 in Norfolk Archæol. (1847) I. 16 To Henry Radoe, smyth, for making one of the old pistolls with a snapphance. 1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie ii. i. sig. Cv These old huddles haue such strong purses with locks, when they shut them they go off like a snaphance. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xlviii. 157 A pistoll, to which belong so many severall partes, as powder, stone, locke, snap-hanse [etc.]. 1660 Act 12 Chas. II c. iv Daggs with fire lockes or Snaphances. 1680 Eng. Mil. Discipl. (new ed.) i. 22 Upon which, when one intends to fire, he puts down the Snaphaunce, which in stead of a Flint, ought to be provided with a true Mine-stone. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > catch catch1398 clicket1487 snaphance1603 catch hook1695 snapc1815 catch lock1836 bulldog1908 1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. F1 A leatherne pouche..that opened and shut with a Snap hance. 1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. L4v His heart goes with the same snaphance his purse doeth. 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (i. 4) 70 In a country mans budget, shut up with snaphance. c. A spring trap. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] grinc825 trapa1000 snarea1100 swikea1100 granea1250 springec1275 gina1300 gnarea1325 stringc1325 trebuchet1362 latch?a1366 leashc1374 snarlc1380 foot gina1382 foot-grina1382 traina1393 sinewa1400 snatcha1400 foot trapa1425 haucepyc1425 slingc1425 engine1481 swar1488 frame1509 brakea1529 fang1535 fall trap1570 spring1578 box-trapa1589 spring trapa1589 sprint1599 noosec1600 springle1602 springe1607 toil1607 plage1608 deadfall1631 puppy snatch1650 snickle1681 steel trap1735 figure (of) four1743 gun-trap1749 stamp1788 stell1801 springer1813 sprent1822 livetrap1823 snaphance1831 catch pole1838 twitch-up1841 basket-trap1866 pole trap1879 steel fall1895 tread-trap1952 conibear trap1957 conibear1958 1831 W. Scott Quentin Durward (new ed.) I. v. 84 There are such traps and snap-haunches as may cost you a limb. 3. a. A musket, gun, etc., fitted with a lock of this kind, in use in the 16–17th centuries. Now Historical.So Dutch and Flem. snaphaan, German †schnapphahnrohr. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > musket musket1574 snaphancec1575 muscado1592 firelock1625 matchlock1638 fusee1661 squirt-fire1678 fusil1680 jingal1761 Brown Bess1785 tophaike1813 Tower musket1832 jezail1838 trumpet-pipe1844 bundook1886 needle-musket1898 α. β. c1575 J. Hooker Life Sir P. Carew in Archaeologia (1840) 28 139 Sir Peter..hade with hyme a case of excellente snaphaunses.1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 129 If the horse men use firelocke peeces, or snap haunces.1621 G. Markham Hungers Preuention 44 Tis better it be a fier locke or Snaphaunce then a cocke and tricker.1656 T. Blount Glossographia Snaphaunse, a fire-lock, or Gun that strikes fire without the use of a match.1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel III. iii. 93 ‘Let me see those pistols.’ ‘Ye are not so unwise as to meddle with such snap-haunces?’1840 W. Gresley Siege Lichfield 287 The snaphaunce differed from the modern fire~lock, in the hammer not forming the covering for the pan.figurative.1608 J. Day Law-trickes sig. H4 A parlous Girle, her wits a meere Snaphaunce, Goe's with a fire locke.1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 47 [Not] to strike iust vpon the wheeles being firelockes, or vpon the hammers or steeles, if they be Snap-hances. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iii. xii. 93 Three hundred Muskets, Snaphances, and Firelockes. 1651 O. Cromwell in H. Cary Memorials Great Civil War (1842) II. 289 We have left us in store but..two thousand and thirty muskets, whereof thirty snaphancies. 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. United Netherlands I. vi. 316 [He] had borne a snap-hance on his shoulder as a volunteer. 1882 Standard 10 Feb. 5/3 The seafaring man with his snap-hance, his flint lock, or his steel lance was upon them. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > one bearing or using handgun > musket musketeer1590 snaphance1645 fusee1650 mousquetaire1706 jezailchee1862 1645 N. Drake Jrnl. Sieges Pontefract Castle (1861) 47 Capt. Joshua Walker with..about 20 snaphanches went out through the howses. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] > a sharp answer, retort regestion1565 snaphance1598 regest1609 retortion1609 retort1610 retractation1637 riposte1877 comeback1908 answer-back1921 the short answer to (something) is1955 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. iv. sig. D6 And old crabb'd Scotus..Pay'th me with snaphaunce, quick distinction. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman queanOE whorec1175 malkinc1275 wenchelc1300 ribalda1350 strumpeta1350 wench1362 filtha1375 parnelc1390 sinner14.. callet1415 slut?c1425 tickle-tailc1430 harlot?a1475 mignote1489 kittock?a1500 mulea1513 trulla1516 trully?1515 danta1529 miswoman1528 stewed whore1532 Tib1533 unchaghe1534 flag1535 Katy1535 jillet1541 yaud1545 housewife1546 trinkletc1550 whippet1550 Canace1551 filthy1553 Jezebel1558 kittyc1560 loonc1560 laced mutton1563 nymph1563 limmer1566 tomboy1566 Marian1567 mort1567 cockatrice1568 franion1571 blowze1573 rannell1573 rig1575 Kita1577 poplet1577 light-skirts1578 pucelle1578 harlotry1584 light o' lovea1586 driggle-draggle1588 wagtail1592 tub-tail1595 flirt-gill1597 minx1598 hilding1599 short-heels1599 bona-roba1600 flirt1600 Hiren1600 light-heels1602 roba1602 baggage1603 cousin1604 fricatrice1607 rumbelow1611 amorosa1615 jaya1616 open-taila1618 succubus1622 snaphancea1625 flap1631 buttered bun1638 puffkin1639 vizard1652 fallen woman1659 tomrigg1662 cunt1663 quaedama1670 jilt1672 crack1677 grass-girl1691 sporting girl1694 sportswoman1705 mobbed hood1707 brim1736 trollop1742 trub1746 demi-rep1749 gillyflower1757 lady of easy virtue1766 mot1773 chicken1782 gammerstang1788 buer1807 scarlet woman1816 blowen1819 fie-fie1820 shickster?1834 streel1842 charver1846 trolly1854 bad girl1855 amateur1862 anonyma1862 demi-virgin1864 pickup1871 chippy1885 wish-wife1886 tart1887 tartleta1890 flossy1893 fly girl1893 demi-mondaine1894 floozy1899 slattern1899 scrub1900 demi-vierge1908 cake1909 coozie1912 muff1914 tarty1918 yes-girl1920 radge1923 bike1945 puta1948 messer1951 cooze1955 jamette1965 skeezer1986 slutbag1987 chickenhead1988 ho1988 a1625 J. Fletcher Women Pleas'd iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Eeeeeev/1 'Faith wholsome women will but spoyle ye too, For you are so us'd to snap-haunces. 6. Attributive, as snaphance bag, snaphance hate, snaphance lock, snaphance musket, snaphance pistol, snaphance satirist. ΚΠ 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. G2 v It is your dooing..that these stall-fed cormorants..must bung vp all the wealth of the Land in their snap-haunce bags. 1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia vi. sig. E2 The sharp tart veriuice of his snap-haunce hate. 1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 38 I that even now lisp'd like an Amorist, Am turn'd into a snaphaunce Satyrist. 1643 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. iv. 67 The hundred Snaphance muskets and..other small things. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xviii. 135/1 A snaphaunch Lock is the generall name for all fire Locks. 1898 Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Mar. 107 The President exhibited a snaphaunce pistol of the year 1619. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1539 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。