| 单词 | cock-thrashing |
| 释义 | > as lemmascock-thrashing cock-thrashing n. historical in later use a custom, traditionally associated with Shrovetide, in which sticks are thrown at a cockerel or rooster tied to a post; = cock-throwing n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > cock-throwing > [noun] cock-thrashing1409 throwing at cocks1612 cock-throwing1650 cockshy1815 cockshying1830 1409 Let. Bk. I (London Metropolitan Archives COL/AD/01/009) f. lxxvijv Qe null vse ne face leuer argent pur lez iewes appellez foteballe & Cokthresshyng a cause des nouels mariages faitz en la dite Cite. 1905 W. C. Hazlitt Brand's Pop. Antiq. Great Brit.: Faiths & Folklore (rev. ed.) II. 475/2 It was usual to have them [sc. pancakes] after cock-threshing on Shrove-Tuesday. 2013 R. A. Stritmatter & L. Kositsky On Date, Sources & Design of Shakespeare's Tempest vii. 74 ‘Bat-fowling’..is a kind of primal cock-thrashing and therefore also corresponds to the pattern of the play's Shrovetide symbolism. < as lemmas |
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