单词 | to cast a hawk |
释义 | > as lemmasto cast a hawk 59. Hawking. to cast a hawk: in various senses: cf. V., III., and see quots. ΚΠ c1430 Bk. Hawkyng in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 296 Ye shull say cast your hawke thereto [to her game], and say not lete flee. 1486 Bk. St. Albans A ij b Bere thi hawke home on thi fiste and cast hir on a perch. 1486 Bk. St. Albans A vj b Ye shall say cast yowre hawke to the perch, and not set youre hawke vppon the perch. 1486 Bk. St. Albans B vj Whan she is cast to a fowle, she fleith a waywarde as thogh she knewe nott the fowle. 1614 S. Latham Falconry Explan. Wordes sig. ¶v To cast a Hawke, is to take her in your hands before the pinions of her wings, and to hold her from bating or striuing, when you administer any thing vnto her. a1626 J. Fletcher & W. Rowley Maid in Mill iii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbbb3/1 If you had..handled her as men do unmand Hawks, Cast her, and malde her up in good clean linnen. 1704 Dict. Rusticum at Eyess It will be proper to shew how to Seel a Hawk..Casting your Hawk, take her by the Beak, and put the Needle through her Eye-lid. < as lemmas |
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