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单词 to bird off
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to bird off
transitive. to bird off: to shoot (people) one by one from a distance in the manner of a hunter shooting birds. In passive in quots. Cf. to pick off 2 at pick v.1 Phrasal verbs 1. Obsolete. rare.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > fire (a gun) [verb (transitive)] > shoot (a person or thing)
shoot1617
to bird off1688
to knock downa1744
to pick off1745
pop1762
drill1808
plug1833
perforate1838
slap1842
stop1845
pot1860
spot1882
plunk1888
pip1900
souvenir1915
poop1917
spray1922
smoke1926
zap1942
crack1943
pot-shoot1969
1688 P. Rycaut tr. G. de la Vega Royal Comm. Peru vii. xvii. 946 Sixty common Souldiers of good esteem were killed likewise, who never came to dint of Sword, or push of Pike, but were shot and birded off at a distance.
1700 P. Rycaut Hist. Turks 151/2 Their Men wading over a marshy Ground..sticking in the Mire, were birded off and killed with Musquet-shot.
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