单词 | unstrike |
释义 | unstrikev. (See quot. 1678.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > [verb (transitive)] > loosen strings of hood unstrike1614 1614 S. Latham Falconry i. iii. 10 Then vnstrike her hood, and lure her..with a bitte or two of meate. 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) To Unstrike the hood, in Faulconry, to draw the strings that it may be in a readiness to pull off.] 1852 R. F. Burton Falconry in Valley of Indus iii. 26 After slipping the knot that held the jesses to the leash, I gently ‘unstruck’ my Shikrah's hood, [and] pulled it off. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < v.1614 |
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