单词 | spalch |
释义 | † spalchv. Obsolete. rare. reflexive. Of a hawk: To clean (itself) with the beak. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [verb (reflexive)] > actions of hawk spalchc1450 rouse1486 c1450 Bk. Hawking in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 298 Put her oute a-gayn to prowne and spalch herself. 1486 Bk. St. Albans, Hawking b vii b When she begynnyth to penne, and plumyth, and spalchith and pikith her selfe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < v.c1450 |
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