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单词 to lie to the dogs, to the gun
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to lie to the dogs, to the gun
c. Shooting. Of game-birds: To remain crouching upon the ground. (Also to lie dead.) to lie to the dogs, to the gun: to permit the approach of a dog or the sportsman without ‘rising’.
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to stand, be (abide obs.) at bayc1314
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stalla1425
starta1425
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beatc1470
lodgec1470
trason1486
rouse1532
angle1575
bolt1575
to take squat1583
baya1657
watch1677
fall1697
tree1699
to go away1755
to sink the wind1776
to get up1787
to go to ground1797
lie1797
to stand up1891
fly1897
1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 441/1 After the birds have been sprung many times, they lie so dead that they will suffer him [the sportsman] almost to tread upon them before they will rise.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 441/2 Partridges lie much better to dogs that wind them, than to those that follow them by the track.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 443/1 When..the sportsman perceives the birds running with their heads erect, he must run after them..for he may be pretty certain they will not lie well that day.
1848 Zoologist 6 1964 The Spanish snipe would much less frequently ‘lie’ to the gun.
1886 Ld. Walsingham & R. Payne-Gallwey Shooting (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) II. 6 In Scotland grouse are usually walked up with dogs. The birds in that country lie well... If grouse lie well to dogs..they give easy marks to the gunner.
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