单词 | to take up for hawks |
释义 | > as lemmasto take up for hawks (a) to take up for hawks: (apparently) to seize and slaughter (an old or useless horse) as meat for hawks; (hence) to ruin, destroy (a person). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [verb (transitive)] > slaughter (old or useless horse) as meat for hawks to take up for hawks1471 1471 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 565 I beseche yow, and my horse..be not takyn vp for the Kyngys hawkys, that he may be had hom and kept in your plase. a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iii. iii. sig. E.ij Ye were take vp for haukes, ye were gone, ye were gone. < as lemmas |
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