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单词 to put the shot
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to put the shot
a. transitive. To propel (a heavy stone or weight) as an athletic exercise or sporting endeavour, (now properly) from a hand tucked between shoulder and neck, the force for the throw being generated mainly by the swing of the body. Now chiefly in to put the shot (see shot n.1 14c).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > contend in athletics [verb (intransitive)] > throw weight, shot, etc.
to cast, put, or throw the stonec1300
putc1300
to pitch the bar1600
to put the shot1884
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 1044 (MED) Neuere yete ne saw he or Putten the stone.
c1440 (a1350) Sir Isumbras (Thornton) (1844) 606 (MED) Knyghtes went to put the stane.
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Bii They haue made me here to put the stone.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais in Wks. (1737) I. i. xxiiii. 223 He did cast the dart, throw the bar, put the stone.
1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd ii. iv When thou ran, or wrestled, or putted the stane [1726 (ed. 2) didst..putt the Stane].
1794 J. Sinclair Statist. Acc. Scotl. XI. xx. 287 The dance and the song, with shinty and putting the stone, are their chief amusements.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. xiv. 341 Auld Edie, that kens the rule of a' country games better than ony man that ever drave a bowl, or threw an axle-tree, or putted a stane.
1818 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 257 Danced wi' lightsome heart, or pat the stane.
1834 J. S. Knowles Beggar of Bethnal-Green i. ii. 12 At quoits I'm famous for a ringer! And then I'll put the stone with any one.
1884 H. C. Bunner in Harper's Mag. Jan. 304/1 The Scottish-Americans will teach you to put the shot.
1889 Boy's Own Paper 7 Sept. 780/1 The same plan can be adopted for both putting the weight and the broad jump.
1912 E. Ferber Where Car turns at 18th in Buttered Side Down xii. 212 He had played quarter-back every year from his freshman year, and he could putt the shot and cut classes with the best of 'em.
1938 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 10 Apr. (Sports section) 4/8 Erwin of T. C. U. copped one first place for the Frogs when he putted the shot 47 feet, 4 inches.
1950 Oxf. Junior Encycl. IX. 35/1 This department of athletic sports includes..Putting the Weight, and Throwing the Discus, the Javelin, and the Hammer.
1961 I. F. Grant Folk Ways 347 The contest of putting the stone as carried out at modern Highland Games consists of putting (not throwing, the competitor's hand may not be put back farther than his elbow) a stone of 16–23 lb. as far as the competitor can.
1991 Sports Illustr. 24 June 88/2 Dumble..set a women's Pac-10 record by putting the shot 56' 7½'' at the..track and field championships.
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