| 单词 | butt-length |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbutt-length butt-length n. now historical and rare the distance between the butts at the two ends of an archery range, esp. used as a measure; also in a pair of butt-lengths in same sense. ΚΠ a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xxxi. 628 Than rode eche of hem from other more than two but lengthe [Fr. plus dun arpent de terre]. 1536 in Protocol Bk. Sir J. Cristisone (1928) 50 [Each should have pasture..to the space of] ane payr of butlynthis except corne land. 1580 T. Twyne Short & Pithie Disc. Earthquakes sig. A.iijv Beeing not much past a payre of Butte lengthes without the libertie barres of the Citie of London, walking with honest godlye companye. ?a1643 R. Carew Excellent Helps (1652) 6 When he was gone two or three But-lengths from his house. c1655 Copy Let. A. Thacher in MS Sloane 922 f. 113v I saw my wife about a but length from mee geeting her selfe forth from amongst the timber of the broken barke. 1955 Sc. Hist. Rev. 34 24 I believe the statutory butt-length in Scotland to have been 120 yards. < as lemmas |
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