| 释义 |
† ˈcost-castle Obs. rare—1.
[perh. cost = coast.]
Name of some boyish game.
1603Florio Montaigne iii. xiii. (1632) 626 To see him [Scipio] carelessly to dallie..in chusing of cockle-shels, and play at cost-castle along the sea-shoare with his friend Lælius.
(Montaigne's word is cornichon va devant, explained by Littré as a race at picking up a number of objects while running.) |