英语词汇“tod and lambs”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

tod and lambs n. (also the tod and the lambs) Scottish (now historical) a board game of strategic skill for two (sometimes likened to draughts), in which one player with a single piece (the fox or tod; cf. sense 4) attempts to capture an opponent's pieces (the lambs) in order to avoid being cornered and so defeated.This is a variety of the game called fox and geese: see fox and geese n. at fox n. Compounds 2d.

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1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. II Tod and Lambs, a game played on a perforated board, with wooden pins.

1829 G. Robertson Rural Recoll. viii. 113 At other times they played at games—of the dambrod, or at the tod and the lambs.

1937 N. B. Morrison When Wind Blows ii. i. 79 It was the day before their oldest brother's funeral, so they could not play with their game boards at dames or the tod-and-the-lambs.

2011 M. A. Hall in E. J. Cowan & L. Henderson Hist. Everyday Life Medieval Scotl., 1000–1600 vi. 154 It also has parallels with the chase game of fox and geese (sometimes referred to as tod and lambs in Scotland).

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