英语词汇“twelve score prick”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†b. twelve (also twenty-four) score prick: a target with a mark in the centre placed 240 (or 480) paces distant, the regular distance at which shooting at the prick was practised. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [noun] > archery target

bercelc1440

butt1440

shell1497

rover1511

standing pricka1525

round1531

popinjay1548

prick-mark1553

Turk1569

twelve (also twenty-four) score prick1569

garden butt1572

parrot1578

clout1584

hoyle1614

shaw-fowl1621

prick wanda1650

goal1662

1569 T. Hearne in W. Camden Hist. Eliz. (1717) Pref. p. xxix The shotinge with the Standerd, the shotinge with the brode arrowe, the shotinge at the twelve skore prick, the shotinge at the Turke.

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 73 Their shaft was a cloth yard, their pricks 24. score.

1604 Penniles Parl. Threed-bare Poets in Iacke of Dover Quest of Inquirie sig. F4^v A Turke can be hit at twelue score pricks in Fiendsbury fields.

1620 T. Middleton & W. Rowley World Tost sig. B3 The Bow-mans twelue-score prick.

b. As multiplier before a higher numeral (hundred, thousand, etc.). twelve score, twelve twenties, two hundred and forty; †also elliptical for twelve score yards, a common range for a shot in archery; hence attributive in twelve score prick (see prick n. 19b).

ΚΠ

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12698 Twelf [c1300 Otho twealf] þusend cnihtes.

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. l. 66/450 He deide tweolf hundred ȝer..Aftur ore louerdes burtyme.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 10121 In tuelf hundred ȝer of grace & þe secunde ȝere.

c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. 2011 Twelf hundir nynti ȝhere and sewyn Fra Crist was borne.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vi. l. 107 Tuelff hundreth ȝer tharto nynte and sewyn.]

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Twelue hundreth thousande sestertia.

1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures ix. 28 Eleven or twelve thousand staves hardened in the fire.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. vii. 131 A Gallery of twelve hundred Foot long.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 2168 Ragan..[lived] Tuelue [Trin. Cambr. Twelue] scor o yeires.1550–3 Decaye of Eng. A v Twelf score persons in Oxfordshire.1569 T. Hearne in W. Camden Hist. Eliz. (1717) Pref. p. xxix The shotinge with the Standerd, the shotinge with the brode arrowe, the shotinge at the twelve skore prick, the shotinge at the Turke.1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 45 A woulde haue clapt ith clowt at twelue score. 1604 Penniles Parl. Threed-bare Poets in Iacke of Dover Quest of Inquirie sig. F4^v A Turke can be hit at twelue score pricks in Fiendsbury fields.1620 T. Middleton & W. Rowley World Tost sig. B3 The Bow-mans twelue-score prick.1685 J. Dryden tr. Theocritus Idyllium xviii, in Sylvæ 102 Twelve score Virago's of the Spartan Race.1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Coursing When a hare is put up,..let her run twelve-score yards or thereabouts, before the greyhounds are slip'd at her.

单词	twelve score prick
释义	> as lemmas twelve (also twenty-four) score prick †b. twelve (also twenty-four) score prick: a target with a mark in the centre placed 240 (or 480) paces distant, the regular distance at which shooting at the prick was practised. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [noun] > archery target bercelc1440 butt1440 shell1497 rover1511 standing pricka1525 round1531 popinjay1548 prick-mark1553 Turk1569 twelve (also twenty-four) score prick1569 garden butt1572 parrot1578 clout1584 hoyle1614 shaw-fowl1621 prick wanda1650 goal1662 1569 T. Hearne in W. Camden Hist. Eliz. (1717) Pref. p. xxix The shotinge with the Standerd, the shotinge with the brode arrowe, the shotinge at the twelve skore prick, the shotinge at the Turke. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 73 Their shaft was a cloth yard, their pricks 24. score. 1604 Penniles Parl. Threed-bare Poets in Iacke of Dover Quest of Inquirie sig. F4^v A Turke can be hit at twelue score pricks in Fiendsbury fields. 1620 T. Middleton & W. Rowley World Tost sig. B3 The Bow-mans twelue-score prick. extracted from prickn. twelve score prick b. As multiplier before a higher numeral (hundred, thousand, etc.). twelve score, twelve twenties, two hundred and forty; †also elliptical for twelve score yards, a common range for a shot in archery; hence attributive in twelve score prick (see prick n. 19b). ΚΠ c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12698 Twelf [c1300 Otho twealf] þusend cnihtes. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. l. 66/450 He deide tweolf hundred ȝer..Aftur ore louerdes burtyme. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 10121 In tuelf hundred ȝer of grace & þe secunde ȝere. c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. 2011 Twelf hundir nynti ȝhere and sewyn Fra Crist was borne. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vi. l. 107 Tuelff hundreth ȝer tharto nynte and sewyn.] 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Twelue hundreth thousande sestertia. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures ix. 28 Eleven or twelve thousand staves hardened in the fire. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. vii. 131 A Gallery of twelve hundred Foot long. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 2168 Ragan..[lived] Tuelue [Trin. Cambr. Twelue] scor o yeires.1550–3 Decaye of Eng. A v Twelf score persons in Oxfordshire.1569 T. Hearne in W. Camden Hist. Eliz. (1717) Pref. p. xxix The shotinge with the Standerd, the shotinge with the brode arrowe, the shotinge at the twelve skore prick, the shotinge at the Turke.1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 45 A woulde haue clapt ith clowt at twelue score. View more context for this quotation1604 Penniles Parl. Threed-bare Poets in Iacke of Dover Quest of Inquirie sig. F4^v A Turke can be hit at twelue score pricks in Fiendsbury fields.1620 T. Middleton & W. Rowley World Tost sig. B3 The Bow-mans twelue-score prick.1685 J. Dryden tr. Theocritus Idyllium xviii, in Sylvæ 102 Twelve score Virago's of the Spartan Race.1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Coursing When a hare is put up,..let her run twelve-score yards or thereabouts, before the greyhounds are slip'd at her. extracted from twelveadj.n. < as lemmas
随便看	θ224334 θ224335 θ224336 θ224337 θ224338 θ224339 θ22434 θ224340 θ224341 θ224342 θ224343 θ224344 θ224345 θ224346 θ224347 θ224348 θ224349 θ22435 θ224350 θ224351 θ224352 θ224353 θ224354 θ224355 θ224356

> as lemmas