单词 | coney-stealer |
释义 | > as lemmasconey-stealer coney-stealer n. now historical and rare ΚΠ 1629 J. Shirley Wedding ii. i. sig. D2 There are Cony-stealers abroad sir. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 209 The very Cony-stealers that were abroad that night..for hast..left their Ferret in the Cony-boroughs behind them. 1832 W. Scott in Woodstock (rev. ed.) App. to Introd. p. xxix This night it happened that there were six cony-stealers, who were come with their nets and ferrets to the cony-burrows by Rosamond's Well. 1899 T. F. Kirby Wykeham's Reg. II. 149 Monition for deer and coney stealers in the bishop's park and warren at Fareham. 1905 M. Bateson Rec. Borough Leicester III. ccclxii. 339 Has received Beaumont's letter on certain coney stealers. < as lemmas |
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