英语词汇“jess”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

jess

/dʒɛs

Falconry

noun (usually jesses)

A short leather strap fastened round each leg of a hawk, usually also having a ring or swivel to which a leash may be attached.It has leather jesses on its legs, which are used by falconers and people who take the birds out to hunt....

Birds were tethered by jesses to Astroturf-covered perches.
She rarely dreamed, but she did that night, fretful visions of tight-held jesses and the clipping of wings.

verb [with object]

Put jesses on (a hawk).

Origin

Middle English: from Old French ges, based on Latin jactus 'a throw', from jacere 'to throw'.

单词	jess
释义	jess /dʒɛs / Falconry noun (usually jesses) A short leather strap fastened round each leg of a hawk, usually also having a ring or swivel to which a leash may be attached.It has leather jesses on its legs, which are used by falconers and people who take the birds out to hunt.... Birds were tethered by jesses to Astroturf-covered perches. She rarely dreamed, but she did that night, fretful visions of tight-held jesses and the clipping of wings. verb [with object] Put jesses on (a hawk). Origin Middle English: from Old French ges, based on Latin jactus 'a throw', from jacere 'to throw'. Rhymes acquiesce, address, assess, Bess, bless, bouillabaisse, caress, cess, chess, coalesce, compress, confess, convalesce, cress, deliquesce, digress, dress, duchesse, duress, effervesce, effloresce, evanesce, excess, express, fess, finesse, fluoresce, guess, Hesse, impress, incandesce, intumesce, largesse, less, manageress, mess, ness, noblesse, obsess, oppress, outguess, phosphoresce, politesse, possess, press, priestess, princess, process, profess, progress, prophetess, regress, retrogress, stress, success, suppress, tendresse, top-dress, transgress, tress, tristesse, underdress, vicomtesse, yes
随便看	wheels within wheels wheel well wheelwright wheely bin wheen wheesht wheeze wheezer wheezily wheeziness wheezingly wheezy whelk whelm whelp when when all is said and done whence whencesoever whene'er whenever when in Rome (do as the Romans do) when-issued when it comes to —— when one's ship comes in (or home)

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