单词 | brown-bill |
释义 | brown-billn. A kind of halberd painted brown, formerly used by foot-soldiers and watchmen. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > halberd > [noun] weyc1275 poleaxe1294 billc1300 glaivec1450 langue de boeuf1450 halberd1497 budgea1522 brown-bill1589 ox-tongue1611 partisan1611 Lochaber axe1618 feather-staff1622 halberd staff1687 battle-axe1709 ko1923 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet C iij b All weapons, from the taylors bodkin to the watchmans browne bil. 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 125 Brown Bills, Levied in the City, Made Bills to pass the Grand Committee. 1831 W. Scott Peveril (new ed.) III. ii. 38 A constable with three or four assistants, armed with the old-fashioned brown-bills. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. i. 316 There the porter stood, brown-bill in hand. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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