| 单词 | clothyard shaft |
| 释义 | > as lemmascloth-yard shaft The yard by which cloth was measured: chiefly in cloth-yard shaft, applied in ballads to an arrow of the long bow. According to Act 3 & 4 Edward VI c. 2 §8 ‘cloth was to bee meten and measured by the yard, adding to every yard one inch of the rule’; subsequently the standard yard of 36 inches was adopted. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > yard > specific tailor's yard1547 cloth-yardc1560 c1560 Hunting Cheviot in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 309 An arow, that a cloth-yarde was lang to the harde stele halyde he. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xx. 88 That fellow handles his bow like a crow-keeper, draw me a clothiers yard. View more context for this quotation] 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxvi. 122 They not an Arrow drew but was a cloth-yard long. 1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel iv. xii. 104 A cloth-yard shaft Whistled from startled Tinlinn's yew. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. i. 2 With the yew-bow and cloth-yard shaft at Cressy and Agincourt. cloth-yard shaft a. An arrow. cloth-yard shaft, see cloth-yard n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun] streale?680 floc893 arrowOE pileOE bolta1000 flanea1000 archer1297 shaftc1400 grey-goose wing1566 dorlach1575 goose-wing1630 shaftment1634 fate1700 timberc1879 c1400 Rom. Rose 1747 So at the last the shaft of tree I drough out, with the fethers three. ?c1480 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1865) III. 253 Item xiiij shaffe of bolts and shoytyng shaftes, price xiiij s. Item v shaffe of rowyng shaftes iiij s. Item xlvij shaffe of childre shaftes. 1483 Cath. Angl. 57/2 A Chafte; vb[i] Arowe. 1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 9 §3 Euerie man, hauynge..men children..shall prouide..a bowe and two shaftes. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. i. 140 In my schoole dayes, when I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellow of the selfe same flight The selfe same way. View more context for this quotation 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor v. iii. sig. Piiv Draw me the biggest shaft you haue out of the But you wot of. View more context for this quotation 1624 Bp. J. Hall True Peace-maker 14 Thou wounded heart..alas, the shaft sticks still in thee, or if that bee shaken out, the head. a1711 T. Ken Edmund in Wks. (1721) II. ix. 236 Shafts aim'd at Trees can never mount so high, As those we shoot directly tow'rds the sky. a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. (1878) iv. 129 The air was darkened by the shafts from the hosts of English archers. < as lemmas |
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