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单词 buck-horn
释义

buck-hornn.

/ˈbʌkhɔːrn/
Forms: Also buck's horn.
Etymology: < buck n.1 + horn n.
1.
a. The horn of a buck.
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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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).
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