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单词 capon's flight
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capon's flight
a. The distance which a bird can or does fly. †capon's flight (see quot.).
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1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xxii. 121 Let it [sc. the doue-house] be distant a flight or two from any water.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 4 Above the flight of Pegasean wing. View more context for this quotation
1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum at Flight Capon's Flight, a compass of ground, such as a capon might fly over, due to the eldest of several brothers in dividing the father's effects, when there is no principal manour in a lordship.
c1820 S. Rogers Meillerie in Italy 28 Within an eagle's flight.
figurative.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 199 From this high pitch let us descend A lower flight . View more context for this quotationa1854 Ld. Cockburn Memorials (1856) ii. 132 His constitutional animation never failed to carry him a flight beyond ordinary mortals.
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