| 单词 | butt's length |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbutt's length butt's length n. now historical and rare the distance between the butts at the two ends of an archery range used as a measure; = butt-length n. at Compounds 1b. ΚΠ 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World v. 313 When two Armies are within a distance of a Butts length. 1628 J. Clavell Recantation of Ill Led Life 36 But aboue all which way so e're you ride, A Butts length distance at the least diuide Your selues from one another. 1823 W. Scott Peveril I. ix. 251 Why here has a new plot broken out among the Round-heads, worse than Venner's by a butt's length. 1946 Irish Hist. Stud. 5 51 The rear division, where the attack was particularly hot, was unable to advance a butt's length in three-quarters of an hour. < as lemmas |
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