单词 | caperer |
释义 | † caperern.1 = caper n.3, privateer. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > privateer or pirate ship > [noun] > privateer Dunkirker1588 Dunkirk1599 she-Dunkirk1623 Dunker1630 privateer?1641 private man of war1646 caper1657 letter(s) of mart ship1695 caperera1698 letter of marque ship1703 letter(s) of mart man1704 letter of marque1768 shaving-mill1781 ship-privateer1799 sea-wolf1884 a1698 W. Row Contin. in R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) xii. 508 At this time our caperers set to sea. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021). caperern.2 1. One who capers. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > capering > one who or that which fiskerc1440 friskera1549 caperer1693 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires The nimble caperer on the cord. 1812 Ld. Byron Waltz x Columbia's caperers to the warlike whoop. 2. A caddis-fly (Phryganea); from its flight. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > division Endopterygota or Metabola (winged) > [noun] > order Trichoptera > family Phryganeidae or genus Phryganea > member of (caddis-fly) mayfly1640 water moth1668 trout-fly1746 cadew1775 caddis-fly1787 caseworm fly1828 caperer1856 1856 C. Kingsley Glaucus (ed. 3) 156 Caperers and sand-flies. 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies ii. 80 Fly away as a caperer, on four fawn-coloured wings, with long legs and horns. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < |
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