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单词 to comport the pike
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to comport the pike
8. to comport the pike: to carry it grasped near the middle and pressed to the right side of the body, with the point raised. Obsolete.See description and figure in Pistofilo, Oplomachia (1621), where this ‘modo’ is said to be new, and practised by some French captains, particularly those of the King's Guard; also in Alfieri La Picca (1641) 16 ‘Come porti la picca il capitano.’ (In neither of these is any particular name applied to this ‘modo’.) The mode of coming to the ‘comport’ is fully described in The Perfection of Military Discipline after Newest Methods (1690) p. 24.
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to cheek a pike1608
to comport the pike1627
1627 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman (rev. ed.) xvi*. sig. Gg4v Postures for the Pyke... Shoulder: Port your Pykes. Comporte your Pykes. Order your Pykes.
1643 W. Barriffe Mil. Discipl. (ed. 3) cxiii. 362 Comporting your Halfe-pikes marching, is to bee understood, when you march under Trees, or some such place where they cannot bee ordered or advanced.
1650 R. Elton Compl. Body Art Mil. (1668) viii. 6 The comporting of the Pike is only useful to the souldier marching up a hill; for if then he should be shouldered, the butt-end of the Pike would always be touching of the ground.
1688 J. S. Mil. Discipl. 7 Captains and Lieutenants are to carry their pikes comported.
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