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单词 sporting gun
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sporting gun
b. With the sense ‘used in or for sport’, as sporting cartridge, sporting device, sporting dog, sporting gear, sporting goods, sporting gun, sporting jacket, etc.In quots. 1606 and 1705 with the more specific sense ‘used for amusement’; see also sporting-piece n., sporting stock n. at Compounds 2.
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1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 146 Rather (O Iacob) choose we all to die, Then to betray our Native Libertie, Then to become the sporting Tennis-ball Of a proud Monarch.
1705 S. Centlivre Gamester 71 You're Fortune's sporting Footballs at the best, Few are his Joys, and small the Gamester's Rest.
1728 A. Ramsay Anacreontic on Love 25 If that the rain Has wrang'd aught of my sporting-gear.
1789 G. White Let. in Nat. Hist. Selborne 281 No sporting dogs will flush woodcocks till inured to the scent and trained to the sport.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 53 A brown coat, something between a great coat and a ‘sporting’ jacket, on his back.
1869 Boyd's Business Directory 500 John H. Mann, importer and dealer in guns, fishing tackle, gun powder, and all sporting goods.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) I. 271/1 The stout pasteboard sporting cartridges.
1931 A. Christie Sittaford Myst. xxi. 171 My aunt was saying he moved lock, stock and barrel. Took his elephant's trotters and his hippopotamus's toothy pegs and all the sporting rifles and what nots.
1978 R. B. Parker Judas Goat xxii. 135 ‘Picked up a new shotgun at a sporting goods store,’ he said.
2001 Archaeology Sept. 20/1 An organization that promotes knowledge of this powerful prehistoric weapon and its use as a modern sporting device.
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