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单词 brown-bill
释义

brown-billn.

Forms: Also brown bill.
Etymology: See bill n.1 2.
A kind of halberd painted brown, formerly used by foot-soldiers and watchmen.
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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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