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单词 teiser
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teisern.

Forms: Middle English teysoure, 1500s teiser, 1500s–1600s teaser, teazer, 1600s teizer.
Etymology: Agent-noun < teise v.2
Obsolete.
One who rouses the game; spec. one of the first brace or leash of deerhounds let slip. (In later use confused in spelling with teaser n.1)
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a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xxxv Þe firste teysoure and þe resceyuour that draweth hym doune, shull parte þe skynne.
a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xxxv Who so be teysoures to þe kynge..as ofte as any hert cometh oute, he shulde..blowe a moot and rechate and late renne after to teyse it forth.
1575 G. Gascoigne Short Obseruation Coursing with Greyhoundes in Noble Arte Venerie 244 By this worde Teasers is ment, the first Greyhounde, or brase, or lease of Greyhoundes, which is let slip.
a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. A3 The loftie frolicke bucks, That scudded fore the teisers like the wind.
1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) vii. xxv. 686 As neere the couert as you can conueniently, you shall place your Teasers, that is, the first brace of greyhounds for the course, which should be the lightest, nimblest, and swiftest dogges you haue.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 189/1.
figurative.1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. v. 66 But these Teazers, rather to rouze then pinch the Game, onely made Whitaker find his spirits.1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. v. 506 The Lord Paget likewise, who..had been one of their Teizers to broach those bold high Overtures.1796 Accurate & Impartial Narr. Campaigns 1793–4 (ed. 3) II. v. 21 Francis himself, the great Carmagnol teizer.
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