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单词 to blow the death
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to blow the (also a) death
8. Hunting. A blast sounded at the death of the game; = mort n.1 3a. Only in to blow the (also a) death.
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to blow (the) prisec1300
strakea1400
to blow the (also a) deathc1425
to blow (also sound, wind, etc.) the (also a) mort1555
to sound the prise1803
c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 101 (MED) Þe maister of þe game..shuld crie skilfully loude ‘Dedow’..and euery hunter blowe þe deeþ.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxii. 175 Let the huntesman alight from his horse, and blowe the death to call in all the houndes.
1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation iii. vii. 86 He that first gets in, cries Hoo-up, to give Notice that he is down, and Blows a Death.
1714 A. Stringer Experienc'd Huntsman 83 Let all the Gentlemen, Keepers and Huntsmen who use horns, stand round the Deer and blow the Death.
1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. i. 214 He that first gets in cries Hoo-up..and blows a Death.
1826 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 121 The keeper..blew ‘the death of the buck’, and..the horners..answered him.
1899 R. W. Chambers Conspirators xxi. 227 I wiped the shining blade on the moss and set the horn to my parched lips and blew the ‘Death!’
1967 Speculum 42 272 She herself then blew the Death and all the huntsmen followed her example.
2003 R. Hayman Trees iii. 31 When the hart lay dead the hunters blew the death.
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