单词 | to shoot with |
释义 | > as lemmasto shoot with (also †in) (b) to shoot with (also †in) a bow, gun, etc.; also rarely with an arrow. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > assail with missiles [verb (transitive)] > from weapon shoota900 to shoot at (also after, against, on, unto, to)c1290 to shoot with (also in)1297 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8262 Nu ich hine [Hengest] ȝiue þe..& let þine hired-childeren..scotien mid heore flan & his cun scenden anan.] 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 7735 He wolde..ssete [v.rr. schute, schete] also mid bowe & arblaste. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 445/2 Schetyn yn a bowe [v.r. shotyn with bowes] sagitto. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 704/2 I shote in any bowe, crosse bowe, or longe bowe. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vi. sig. I But many a man speaketh of Robyn hood, That neuer shotte in his bowe. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 633 Surnamed Strongbow, because he shot in a bow of exceeding great bent. 1647 N. Nye Art of Gunnery i. 35 It is as easie to shoot in a great Gun as in a Musket. c1665 L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) To Children 4 He shott excellently in bowes and gunns, and much us'd them for his exercise. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1646 (1955) II. 528 Here I first saw huge Balistæ or Crosse bows..shot in. < as lemmas |
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