单词 | buck-horn |
释义 | buck-hornn. a. The horn of a buck. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun] > body and parts > antler hornc1000 buck-horn1447 antlet?a1475 antler1603 plant-animal1663 bunch1686 1447–8 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) 36 Whiche bukhorn was presented to my lord on Candelmasse day. b. The horn of a goat used for blowing a blast. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > horn > [noun] > other horns earth horn?a1400 oliphantc1400 ruetc1400 buck-hornc1550 stock-horn1597 bell-horna1640 sea-cornet1653 dudeen?1790 carnyx1810 shofar1833 wonder-horn1864 handhorn1871 post-horn1881 c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 33 Hudit hirdis blauuand ther buc hornis. 2. The material of a buck's horn; also attributive made of, or hard as buck's horn, horny. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > other specific kinds of texture > [adjective] > of texture of horn horny1398 buck-horn1613 hornish1634 corneous1646 horn-like1684 cornuous1818 ceratinous1881 hornified1963 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > bone or horn > [noun] > horn > types of unicorna1533 devil's horn1583 ram's horn1611 greenhorn1725 buffalo-horn1783 stag-horn1815 buck-horn1820 deer-horn1843 devil horn1854 antler1872 rhino horn1889 1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. v. 98 The swarty Smith spits in his Buckehorne fist. 1820 W. Scott Monastery II. v. 167 A large knife hilted with buck-horn. 1881 Macmillan's Mag. 44 473/1 Jacket with a..green collar, and buckshorn buttons. 3. From its hardness: Dried whiting or other fish. (Cf. early modern Dutch bokshoren.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > cured fish > dried fish stockfish1290 spalderlingc1340 titling1386 woke fish1386 salpa?1527 spelding1537 lobfish1538 bacalao1555 Poor John1589 buck-horn1602 poorjack1623 Jacka1625 spalding1776 speldring1802 Digby1829 klipfish1835 Bombay duck1850 scale-fish1856 skrae-fish1867 rockfish1876 katsuobushi1891 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 35 Dried, as Buckhorne made of Whitings. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Merlan A dryed Whiting; the fish which we call Buckhorne. 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xviii. 169 Stockfish whilst it is unbeaten is called Buckhorne. 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon xvi. 398 Thus prepared, they..are called buckhorn. 4. In full buck-horn sight: a branched form of sight of a rifle or sporting gun. U.S. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > sight > types of dispart1578 telescopic sight1674 plain sight1686 aim-frontlet1745 hausse1787 foresight1806 gloaming sight1817 night-sight1822 bead1831 leaf1832 backsight1847 globe sight1847 pendulum hausse1850 hindsight1851 tangent scale1859 tangent1861 tangent backsight1862 training pendulum1862 training level1863 peep sight1866 dispart-sight1867 notch sight1867 buck-horn1877 orthoptic1881 aperturea1884 pinball-sighta1884 dispart patch1884 sight bar1884 flap-sight1887 barley-corn1896 ring sight1901 riflescope1902 spotting scope1904 tangent sight1908 Aldis sight1918 wind-sight1923 scope sight1934 gyro-sight1942 1877 R. I. Dodge Hunting Grounds Great West vii. 105 The very best sight, and the one almost universally in use by sportsmen and professional hunters on the plains, is the plain ‘buckhorn’. 1877 R. I. Dodge Hunting Grounds Great West vii. 105 Sportsmen who use the ‘buck-horn’ must learn to sight ‘on the barrel’. 1901 S. E. White Westerners xi. 78 He had viewed..the scout through the buck-horn sights of his long rifle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1447 |
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