dartn.

Brit.

/dɑːt/, U.S.

/dɑrt/

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s darte, 1600s Scottish dairt.

Etymology: < Old French dart, accusative of darz, dars. in 15th cent. dard = Provençal dart, Spanish dardo, Italian dardo.

a. A pointed missile weapon thrown by the hand; a light spear or javelin; also applied to pointed missiles in general, including arrows, etc.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > pointed missile

pileOE

dartc1330

plumbataa1460

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > specific for throwing

gavelockc1000

wifleOE

dartc1330

gavelot14..

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hurlbatc1450

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espiot1490

javelin1513

archegay1523

framea1545

zagaie1590

bourdonasse1596

assegai1600

c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 3488 Launces, swerdes, & dartes.

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 178 A darte was schot to þem, bot non wist who it schete.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xxvi. C As one shuteth deadly arowes and dartes.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10548 Parys cast at the kyng..Þre darttes.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo ii. 156 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors They use no other Arms than the Dart, (which they cast..dexterously).

1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. iv. 511 The sounding Darts in Iron Tempests flew.

1840 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VII. 7 After a short siege, he was killed by a dart from an engine.

b. figurative.

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1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Ephes. vi. 16 The firy dartis of the worste enmye.

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xli. i Deth with his darte arest me sodenly.

1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 65 in Sylva The too parching darts of the Sun.

1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 12 Love's and friendship's finely pointed dart.

a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 259 The lightning's vivid dart.

c. transferred. A kind of eel-spear (see quot. 1883); a needle-shaped piece of caustic used in surgery; †a representation of a dart or arrow used to mark direction on a drawing, etc. (obsolete); the tongue or spear of flame produced by a blowpipe.

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society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [noun] > arrow on plan or diagram

shaft1730

dart1784

arrowhead1832

1784 Watt Specif. Patent 1432 9 The direction of motion of these..wheels is shown by the darts.

1816 F. Accum Pract. Ess. Chem. Re-agents (1818) 174 Expose it to the flame of a blowpipe dart.

1876 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. IV. 80 Darts of equal parts of iodine and iodide of potassium prepared with dextrine and made as fine as Carlsbad needles, are used..with success in the treatment of..hypertrophied tonsils.

1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads (1884) xxxi. 244 The spear in use on the Ant and Thurne is the dart, and is made with a cross-piece, with barbed spikes set in it like the teeth of a rake.

d. A light pointed missile thrown at a target in the game called darts. Also attributive and in other combinations.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > darts > [noun] > dart

dart1901

arrow1936

1901 Stationer, Printer & Fancy Trades' Reg. 1 June 322 (advt.) Ring Boards. Dart Boards. Parlour Cricket.

1916 H. G. Wells Mr. Britling sees it Through i. v. §11 Dart-throwing and ring-throwing stalls.

1924 B. Gilbert Bly Market 18 Coconut Saloons. Shooting Galleries. Dart-Saloons.

1924 B. Gilbert Bly Market 419 Darts, darts, darts, penny a dart. Over 50 wins the prize... No skill needed.

1929 B'ham Post 12 Jan. A peculiar thing I noticed was that two darts, such as they use in public-houses, were near the body.

1941 ‘G. Orwell’ Lion & Unicorn 15 A nation of stamp-collectors, pigeon-fanciers..coupon-snippers, darts-players.

1958 Times 29 Apr. p. x/5 The darts themselves have changed during the past 20 years, from the comparatively light, wooden-stemmed type with feather flights to a shorter kind with much heavier metal body carrying plastic flights.

2. Zoology. An organ resembling a dart: spec. (a) the sting of a venomous insect, scorpion, etc., or that part which pierces the skin; (b) a dart-like organ in some gastropods, having an excitatory function (see dart-sac n. at Compounds 2).

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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > instruments of defence or offence > sting

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1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 163 The Sting of a Bee..I could most plainly perceive..to contain in it, both a Sword or Dart, and the poisonous liquor that causes the pain.

1771 J. Beattie Minstrel: Bk. 1st xii. 7 It poisons like a scorpion's dart.

1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. xx. 231 His [a demon's] scaly tail, with a poisonous dart at the end of it!

1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. ii. 84 Their [snails'] generative organs..contain a copulative pouch, the dart enclosed in a sac.

1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 118.

1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 481 Some Pulmonata and certain species of Doris possess a dart, attached in the former to the female, in the latter to the male, duct.

3. Dressmaking. A seam joining the two edges left by cutting a gore in any stuff.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > sewing or work sewn > seam > specific

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round seam1626

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French seam1882

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French seam1903

slot seam1918

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channel seam1931

flat-fell seam1939

channel seaming1948

1884 Dress Cutting Assoc. Circular To sew the Darts (or Breast Plaits) commence at the top, holding both edges even for one inch.

1893 Weldon's Ladies' Jrnl. 14 252/3 The shape is fitted with hip darts.

4. A name for the snake-like lizards of the genus Acontias (formerly supposed to be venomous serpents) from their habit of darting upon their prey; = dart-serpent n., dart-snake n. at Compounds 2.

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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Scincidae > member of genus Acontias (dart-snake)

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1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Tiro A caste, dart, also a serpent called a dart..Acontias.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 145 (heading) Of the Dart.

1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi ix. §1. 489 The Dart taketh name from his swift darting or leaping upon a man to wound and kill him.

†5.

a. The fish otherwise called dace n. or dare n.³

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > genus Leuciscus > leuciscus vulgaris (dace)

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1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xix. 178 Daces, or Darts, or Dares be of..good nourishment.

b. Short for dart-moth n. at Compounds 2.

a. [ < dart v.] The act of darting; a sudden rapid motion.

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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [noun] > sudden > a sudden dart

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1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 71 The first Dart they make at any thing.

c1850 Arabian Nights (Rtldg.) 306 A bird made a sudden dart from the air upon it.

1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. li. 87 She rose quickly..and prepared herself for a dart at the door.

b. The act of casting a dart or pointed missile; the range within which it may be thrown.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > [noun] > casting of darts

tresgeta1400

darting1565

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1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale 180 With their harpoons held above their heads ready for the dart.

1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale 182 The whale continuing to descend the moment either of the boats got within dart of him.

c. The name of a type of aeroplane, used for attacking warships.

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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > used in warfare > bomber

raider1908

bomber1917

night bomber1918

dart1925

bomb-dropper1928

flying boxcar1932

bombing plane1934

bomber aircraft1935

medium bomber1935

dive-bomber1937

heavy1943

nuisance raider1944

shuttle bomber1944

atomic bomber1945

interdictor1965

stealth1979

1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words Darts, a device used in the earlier part of the War for attacking troops from an aeroplane... Also, the name of a type of small, very fast aeroplane, intended for attacking warships by diving down at high speed and dropping a torpedo when at close range and just clear of the water.

1928 Times 23 Mar. 19/2 We saw three of her [sc. The Eagle, aircraft-carrier's] ‘Dart’ machines appear as specks in the blue, to dive and to attack the Furious with torpedoes.

7. slang (chiefly Australian). Plan, aim, scheme. Also, (one's) fancy or favourite.

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the mind > will > intention > planning > [noun] > a plan

redeeOE

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intentc1386

imaginationa1393

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speculationa1684

sketch1697

to take measures1698

method1704

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1882 Sydney Slang Dict. 3 Dart, object of attraction, or enticing thing or event, or a set purpose.

1887 J. Farrell How he Died 20 Whose ‘dart’ was to appear the justest steward that ever hiked a plate round.

1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms I. iv. 56 The great dart is to keep the young stock away from their mothers until they forget one another.

1890 Argus (Melbourne) 9 Aug. 4/2 When I told them of my ‘dart’ some were contemptuous.

1895 in E. E. Morris Austral Eng. (1898) 115 ‘Fresh strawberries eh!—that's my dart,’ says the bushman when he sees the fruit lunch in Collins-street.

1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 112 Suddenly..he thought of Terry Kelly's pawn-office... That was the dart! Why didn't he think of it sooner?

Compounds

C1.

dart-caster n.

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1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War iv. xii. f. cxviii A certayne nomber of slingers and darte casters.

dart-holding adj.

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1647 H. More Philos. Poems iii. lxviii No fear of Death's dart-holding hand.

dart-shaped adj.

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1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 203/1 Dart-shaped mandibles.

dart-wounded adj.

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a1400–50 Alexander 225 Hire bewte bitis in his brest..as he ware dart-wondid.

C2.

dart-moth n. a moth of the genus Agrotis, so called from a mark on the fore wing.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Noctuidae > genus Agrotis (dart-moths) > member of

dart-moth1819

1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. Index Dart-moths.

1848 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 329 Agrotis segetum (the Dart Moth), and Agrotis exclamationis (the Heart and Dart Moth).

dart-sac n. a hollow structure connected with the generative organs of some gastropods, from which the darts ( 2(b)) are ejected.

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1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 49 A cylindrical hollow muscular organ, the dart-sac.

dart-serpent n. = dart-snake n.

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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Scincidae > member of genus Acontias (dart-snake)

dart1591

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arrow snake1611

dart-snake1694

shoot-serpent1731

javelin-snake1835

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 147 Soddainely there came one of these Dart-Serpentes out of the tree, and wounded him.

1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 338 (C. Good Hope) The Eye-Serpent..is also call'd sometimes the Dart-Serpent, from its darting or shooting himself forward with great swiftness.

dart-snake n. a snake-like lizard of the genus Acontias (= 4).

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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Scincidae > member of genus Acontias (dart-snake)

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shoot-serpent1731

javelin-snake1835

1694 J. Clayton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 135 This I think may..be referred to the Dart-Snakes.

1843 J. Dayman tr. Dante Inferno xxiv. 154 Though puffsnake, dartsnake, watersnake, she [Libya] boast.

Draft additions December 2016

In plural. An indoor game in which small pointed missiles with feather or plastic flights are thrown at a dartboard in order to score points.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > darts > [noun]

darts1771

1771 Craftsman 5 Oct. There was playing at back-sword, cudgels, darts, &c.

1836 Bristol Mercury 8 Oct. When he went in they asked him to play at darts; he did so and drank part of the beer that was won.

1886 Huddersfield Daily Chron. 6 June 3/3 They was no playing at darts either for money or beer at his house.

1919 Mind & Body 26 268 What honest-to-goodness he-soldier of these he-United States of ours would condescend to play darts?

1947 M. Gilbert Close Quarters xii. 175 You can play darts and engage the local talent in gossip.

1958 Times 29 Apr. p. x/4 In the past 30 years darts has become the most important of all public house games.

1988 Darts Player 89 Dec. 7/4 Did they see darts as a ‘mickey-take’ of the upper classes' game of archery?

2015 Radio Times 28 Feb. (South/West ed.) 27/2 Darts also has the best finish of any sport ever invented. Every time you want to win a leg or a set you must finish on a ‘double,’ the hardest shot of all.

Draft additions September 2020

colloquial (chiefly Canadian and Australian). A cigarette. Cf. lung dart n.

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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigarette

cigarito1832

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pill1901

scag1915

nail1925

quirly1932

tab1934

burn1941

draw1946

tube1946

snout1950

cancer stick1958

straight1959

ciggy1962

square1970

bifter1989

lung dart1990

dart2000

2000 Daily Tel. (Sydney) 9 Nov. (7 Days section) 11/1 Oprah Winfrey..takes us on a meander down memory lane, featuring snippets of chats she has had with some of Tinseltown's stars... There's..Mel Gibson with a shaggy type of mullet cut puffing away on a dart.

2017 M. Munro Hockey Sucks (e-book, accessed 26 May 2020) I grew up in a place where you could watch Ronald's mom warm the station wagon up for 5 minutes while she smoked a dart.

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dartv.

Brit.

/dɑːt/, U.S.

/dɑrt/

Etymology: < dart n.: compare French darder (15th cent.) < dard.

†1. transitive. To pierce with a dart or other pointed weapon; to spear, transfix. Also figurative. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > pierce

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prickOE

stickOE

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threstc1275

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gridea1400

tanga1400

prochea1425

launch1460

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gag1570

pole1728

spigota1798

assegai1834

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (transitive)] > catch fish with spear

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c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iv. 212 As the wilde bole..ydarted to the herte.

1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes (new ed.) f. 91^v Till death shall darte him for to dye.

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia ii. 32 Staues like vnto Iauelins headed with bone. With these they dart fish swimming in the water.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 489 When death..had darted King Iames of matchlesse memory.

1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) IV. xxxvi. 224 She..darts dead at once even the embryo hopes of an encroaching Lover.

1753 J. Bond in Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 431 [They] are never sure of darting a whale, till they are within a yard.

2. To throw, cast, shoot (a dart or other missile).

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > assail with missiles [verb (transitive)] > cast (spear or dart)

shoota1100

dart1580

1580 T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (1676) 770 Such other Iauelins as the Romans darted at them.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 51 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors A kind of long headed Pike, which they dart with great exactness.

1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) I. 426/1 He bound it fast to a javelin, and darted it over.

1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale 161 They..sometimes get near enough to dart the harpoon.

3. transferred and figurative. To send forth, or emit, suddenly and sharply; to shoot out; to cast (a glance) quickly and keenly.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > direct (a look)

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fling1654

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > suddenly or swiftly

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1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. C Thine eye darts forth the fire that burneth me.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) v. ii. 142 Dart not scornefull glances from those eies.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 171 The Sunne darted his outragious beames so full upon us.

1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 680 (Fire engine) The water issuing out of the tube that darts it.

1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea xiv. 258 The Camelion..when a fly comes in his way..darts out his Tongue with utmost swiftness.

1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 720 His gentle eye Grew stern, and darted a severe rebuke.

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 272/1 Darting the bill with sudden velocity into the water.

1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. viii. 174 Her eyes..darted flashes of anger as she spoke.

4. intransitive. To throw a dart or other missile.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge missile [verb (intransitive)] > cast dart or spear

dart1530

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 506/2 These Yrisshe men darte best, or throwe a darte best of all men.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xiii. §7. 437 One Laodocus in darting.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 72 They pursue her [the whale] and dart two or three times more at her.

5. To move like a dart; to spring or start with a sudden rapid motion; to shoot. Also figurative.

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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly and suddenly

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a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger False One ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Qq3/2 Destructions darting from their lookes.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. I. 119 They dart away with the swiftness of the wind.

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. i. 2 A thousand vague fears darted athwart her mind.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xiii. 202 ‘No, no’, said little Ruth, darting up.

1885 Spectator 18 July 950/1 A deer darts out of the copse.

1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. ix. 296 The road got level again as it darted away towards Geneva.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	dart
释义	dartn. Brit. /dɑːt/, U.S. /dɑrt/ Forms: Also Middle English–1500s darte, 1600s Scottish dairt. Etymology: < Old French dart, accusative of darz, dars. in 15th cent. dard = Provençal dart, Spanish dardo, Italian dardo. 1. a. A pointed missile weapon thrown by the hand; a light spear or javelin; also applied to pointed missiles in general, including arrows, etc. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > pointed missile pileOE dartc1330 plumbataa1460 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > specific for throwing gavelockc1000 wifleOE dartc1330 gavelot14.. pilec1400 hurlbatc1450 javelot1489 espiot1490 javelin1513 archegay1523 framea1545 zagaie1590 bourdonasse1596 assegai1600 c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 3488 Launces, swerdes, & dartes. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 178 A darte was schot to þem, bot non wist who it schete. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xxvi. C As one shuteth deadly arowes and dartes. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10548 Parys cast at the kyng..Þre darttes. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo ii. 156 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors They use no other Arms than the Dart, (which they cast..dexterously). 1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. iv. 511 The sounding Darts in Iron Tempests flew. 1840 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VII. 7 After a short siege, he was killed by a dart from an engine. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Ephes. vi. 16 The firy dartis of the worste enmye. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xli. i Deth with his darte arest me sodenly. 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 65 in Sylva The too parching darts of the Sun. 1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 12 Love's and friendship's finely pointed dart. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 259 The lightning's vivid dart. c. transferred. A kind of eel-spear (see quot. 1883); a needle-shaped piece of caustic used in surgery; †a representation of a dart or arrow used to mark direction on a drawing, etc. (obsolete); the tongue or spear of flame produced by a blowpipe. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [noun] > arrow on plan or diagram shaft1730 dart1784 arrowhead1832 1784 Watt Specif. Patent 1432 9 The direction of motion of these..wheels is shown by the darts. 1816 F. Accum Pract. Ess. Chem. Re-agents (1818) 174 Expose it to the flame of a blowpipe dart. 1876 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. IV. 80 Darts of equal parts of iodine and iodide of potassium prepared with dextrine and made as fine as Carlsbad needles, are used..with success in the treatment of..hypertrophied tonsils. 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads (1884) xxxi. 244 The spear in use on the Ant and Thurne is the dart, and is made with a cross-piece, with barbed spikes set in it like the teeth of a rake. d. A light pointed missile thrown at a target in the game called darts. Also attributive and in other combinations. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > darts > [noun] > dart dart1901 arrow1936 1901 Stationer, Printer & Fancy Trades' Reg. 1 June 322 (advt.) Ring Boards. Dart Boards. Parlour Cricket. 1916 H. G. Wells Mr. Britling sees it Through i. v. §11 Dart-throwing and ring-throwing stalls. 1924 B. Gilbert Bly Market 18 Coconut Saloons. Shooting Galleries. Dart-Saloons. 1924 B. Gilbert Bly Market 419 Darts, darts, darts, penny a dart. Over 50 wins the prize... No skill needed. 1929 B'ham Post 12 Jan. A peculiar thing I noticed was that two darts, such as they use in public-houses, were near the body. 1941 ‘G. Orwell’ Lion & Unicorn 15 A nation of stamp-collectors, pigeon-fanciers..coupon-snippers, darts-players. 1958 Times 29 Apr. p. x/5 The darts themselves have changed during the past 20 years, from the comparatively light, wooden-stemmed type with feather flights to a shorter kind with much heavier metal body carrying plastic flights. 2. Zoology. An organ resembling a dart: spec. (a) the sting of a venomous insect, scorpion, etc., or that part which pierces the skin; (b) a dart-like organ in some gastropods, having an excitatory function (see dart-sac n. at Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > instruments of defence or offence > sting prickc1350 stang1382 stingle1398 prickle?c1425 forker1616 dart1665 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 163 The Sting of a Bee..I could most plainly perceive..to contain in it, both a Sword or Dart, and the poisonous liquor that causes the pain. 1771 J. Beattie Minstrel: Bk. 1st xii. 7 It poisons like a scorpion's dart. 1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. xx. 231 His [a demon's] scaly tail, with a poisonous dart at the end of it! 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. ii. 84 Their [snails'] generative organs..contain a copulative pouch, the dart enclosed in a sac. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 118. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 481 Some Pulmonata and certain species of Doris possess a dart, attached in the former to the female, in the latter to the male, duct. 3. Dressmaking. A seam joining the two edges left by cutting a gore in any stuff. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > sewing or work sewn > seam > specific seamc1394 round seam1626 fell1852 run and fell1852 French seam1882 dart1884 overseam1891 French seam1903 slot seam1918 jetting1923 channel seam1931 flat-fell seam1939 channel seaming1948 1884 Dress Cutting Assoc. Circular To sew the Darts (or Breast Plaits) commence at the top, holding both edges even for one inch. 1893 Weldon's Ladies' Jrnl. 14 252/3 The shape is fitted with hip darts. 4. A name for the snake-like lizards of the genus Acontias (formerly supposed to be venomous serpents) from their habit of darting upon their prey; = dart-serpent n., dart-snake n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Scincidae > member of genus Acontias (dart-snake) dart1591 darter1608 dart-serpent1608 arrow snake1611 dart-snake1694 shoot-serpent1731 javelin-snake1835 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Tiro A caste, dart, also a serpent called a dart..Acontias. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 145 (heading) Of the Dart. 1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi ix. §1. 489 The Dart taketh name from his swift darting or leaping upon a man to wound and kill him. †5. a. The fish otherwise called dace n. or dare n.³ ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > genus Leuciscus > leuciscus vulgaris (dace) dacec1430 dare?a1500 vendosy1528 dart1655 showler1689 skelly1846 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xix. 178 Daces, or Darts, or Dares be of..good nourishment. b. Short for dart-moth n. at Compounds 2. 6. a. [ < dart v.] The act of darting; a sudden rapid motion. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [noun] > sudden > a sudden dart startc1330 gird1545 whip1550 shoota1596 whippeta1603 snap1631 jet1647 flirt1666 whid1719 dart1721 spout1787 with a thrash1870 sprit1880 divea1897 1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 71 The first Dart they make at any thing. c1850 Arabian Nights (Rtldg.) 306 A bird made a sudden dart from the air upon it. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. li. 87 She rose quickly..and prepared herself for a dart at the door. b. The act of casting a dart or pointed missile; the range within which it may be thrown. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > [noun] > casting of darts tresgeta1400 darting1565 dart1839 1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale 180 With their harpoons held above their heads ready for the dart. 1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale 182 The whale continuing to descend the moment either of the boats got within dart of him. c. The name of a type of aeroplane, used for attacking warships. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > used in warfare > bomber raider1908 bomber1917 night bomber1918 dart1925 bomb-dropper1928 flying boxcar1932 bombing plane1934 bomber aircraft1935 medium bomber1935 dive-bomber1937 heavy1943 nuisance raider1944 shuttle bomber1944 atomic bomber1945 interdictor1965 stealth1979 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words Darts, a device used in the earlier part of the War for attacking troops from an aeroplane... Also, the name of a type of small, very fast aeroplane, intended for attacking warships by diving down at high speed and dropping a torpedo when at close range and just clear of the water. 1928 Times 23 Mar. 19/2 We saw three of her [sc. The Eagle, aircraft-carrier's] ‘Dart’ machines appear as specks in the blue, to dive and to attack the Furious with torpedoes. 7. slang (chiefly Australian). Plan, aim, scheme. Also, (one's) fancy or favourite. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > [noun] > a plan redeeOE devicec1290 casta1300 went1303 ordinancec1385 intentc1386 imaginationa1393 drifta1535 draught1535 forecast1535 platform1547 ground-plat?a1560 table1560 convoy1565 design1565 plat1574 ground-plota1586 plot1587 reach1587 theory1593 game1595 projectment1611 projecting1616 navation1628 approach1633 view1634 plan1635 systema1648 sophism1657 manage1667 brouillon1678 speculationa1684 sketch1697 to take measures1698 method1704 scheme1704 lines1760 outline1760 measure1767 restorative1821 ground plan1834 strategy1834 programme1837 ticket1842 project1849 outline plan1850 layout1867 draft1879 dart1882 lurk1916 schema1939 lick1955 1882 Sydney Slang Dict. 3 Dart, object of attraction, or enticing thing or event, or a set purpose. 1887 J. Farrell How he Died 20 Whose ‘dart’ was to appear the justest steward that ever hiked a plate round. 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms I. iv. 56 The great dart is to keep the young stock away from their mothers until they forget one another. 1890 Argus (Melbourne) 9 Aug. 4/2 When I told them of my ‘dart’ some were contemptuous. 1895 in E. E. Morris Austral Eng. (1898) 115 ‘Fresh strawberries eh!—that's my dart,’ says the bushman when he sees the fruit lunch in Collins-street. 1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 112 Suddenly..he thought of Terry Kelly's pawn-office... That was the dart! Why didn't he think of it sooner? Compounds C1. dart-caster n. ΚΠ 1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War iv. xii. f. cxviii A certayne nomber of slingers and darte casters. dart-holding adj. ΚΠ 1647 H. More Philos. Poems iii. lxviii No fear of Death's dart-holding hand. dart-shaped adj. ΚΠ 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 203/1 Dart-shaped mandibles. dart-wounded adj. ΚΠ a1400–50 Alexander 225 Hire bewte bitis in his brest..as he ware dart-wondid. C2. dart-moth n. a moth of the genus Agrotis, so called from a mark on the fore wing. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Noctuidae > genus Agrotis (dart-moths) > member of dart-moth1819 1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. Index Dart-moths. 1848 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 329 Agrotis segetum (the Dart Moth), and Agrotis exclamationis (the Heart and Dart Moth). dart-sac n. a hollow structure connected with the generative organs of some gastropods, from which the darts ( 2(b)) are ejected. ΚΠ 1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 49 A cylindrical hollow muscular organ, the dart-sac. dart-serpent n. = dart-snake n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Scincidae > member of genus Acontias (dart-snake) dart1591 darter1608 dart-serpent1608 arrow snake1611 dart-snake1694 shoot-serpent1731 javelin-snake1835 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 147 Soddainely there came one of these Dart-Serpentes out of the tree, and wounded him. 1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 338 (C. Good Hope) The Eye-Serpent..is also call'd sometimes the Dart-Serpent, from its darting or shooting himself forward with great swiftness. dart-snake n. a snake-like lizard of the genus Acontias (= 4). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Scincidae > member of genus Acontias (dart-snake) dart1591 darter1608 dart-serpent1608 arrow snake1611 dart-snake1694 shoot-serpent1731 javelin-snake1835 1694 J. Clayton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 135 This I think may..be referred to the Dart-Snakes. 1843 J. Dayman tr. Dante Inferno xxiv. 154 Though puffsnake, dartsnake, watersnake, she [Libya] boast. Draft additions December 2016 In plural. An indoor game in which small pointed missiles with feather or plastic flights are thrown at a dartboard in order to score points. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > darts > [noun] darts1771 1771 Craftsman 5 Oct. There was playing at back-sword, cudgels, darts, &c. 1836 Bristol Mercury 8 Oct. When he went in they asked him to play at darts; he did so and drank part of the beer that was won. 1886 Huddersfield Daily Chron. 6 June 3/3 They was no playing at darts either for money or beer at his house. 1919 Mind & Body 26 268 What honest-to-goodness he-soldier of these he-United States of ours would condescend to play darts? 1947 M. Gilbert Close Quarters xii. 175 You can play darts and engage the local talent in gossip. 1958 Times 29 Apr. p. x/4 In the past 30 years darts has become the most important of all public house games. 1988 Darts Player 89 Dec. 7/4 Did they see darts as a ‘mickey-take’ of the upper classes' game of archery? 2015 Radio Times 28 Feb. (South/West ed.) 27/2 Darts also has the best finish of any sport ever invented. Every time you want to win a leg or a set you must finish on a ‘double,’ the hardest shot of all. Draft additions September 2020 colloquial (chiefly Canadian and Australian). A cigarette. Cf. lung dart n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigarette cigarito1832 paper cigar1833 cigarette1842 papelito1845 coffin-nailc1865 fag1885 butt1893 pill1901 scag1915 nail1925 quirly1932 tab1934 burn1941 draw1946 tube1946 snout1950 cancer stick1958 straight1959 ciggy1962 square1970 bifter1989 lung dart1990 dart2000 2000 Daily Tel. (Sydney) 9 Nov. (7 Days section) 11/1 Oprah Winfrey..takes us on a meander down memory lane, featuring snippets of chats she has had with some of Tinseltown's stars... There's..Mel Gibson with a shaggy type of mullet cut puffing away on a dart. 2017 M. Munro Hockey Sucks (e-book, accessed 26 May 2020) I grew up in a place where you could watch Ronald's mom warm the station wagon up for 5 minutes while she smoked a dart. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022). dartv. Brit. /dɑːt/, U.S. /dɑrt/ Etymology: < dart n.: compare French darder (15th cent.) < dard. †1. transitive. To pierce with a dart or other pointed weapon; to spear, transfix. Also figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > pierce asnesec880 prickOE stickOE through-stitchc1230 threstc1275 rivec1330 dartc1374 gridea1400 tanga1400 prochea1425 launch1460 accloy1543 gag1570 pole1728 spigota1798 assegai1834 the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (transitive)] > catch fish with spear poach1602 dart1624 peg1735 spear1755 harpoon1774 gig1816 spritsail-yard1833 gaff1844 grain1892 spear-fish1962 c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iv. 212 As the wilde bole..ydarted to the herte. 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes (new ed.) f. 91^v Till death shall darte him for to dye. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia ii. 32 Staues like vnto Iauelins headed with bone. With these they dart fish swimming in the water. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 489 When death..had darted King Iames of matchlesse memory. 1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) IV. xxxvi. 224 She..darts dead at once even the embryo hopes of an encroaching Lover. 1753 J. Bond in Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 431 [They] are never sure of darting a whale, till they are within a yard. 2. To throw, cast, shoot (a dart or other missile). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > assail with missiles [verb (transitive)] > cast (spear or dart) shoota1100 dart1580 1580 T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (1676) 770 Such other Iauelins as the Romans darted at them. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 51 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors A kind of long headed Pike, which they dart with great exactness. 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) I. 426/1 He bound it fast to a javelin, and darted it over. 1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale 161 They..sometimes get near enough to dart the harpoon. 3. transferred and figurative. To send forth, or emit, suddenly and sharply; to shoot out; to cast (a glance) quickly and keenly. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > direct (a look) warpc1175 send1592 dart1593 look1599 squint1631 fling1654 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > suddenly or swiftly shootc1480 dart1593 dartle1855 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. C Thine eye darts forth the fire that burneth me. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) v. ii. 142 Dart not scornefull glances from those eies. View more context for this quotation 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 171 The Sunne darted his outragious beames so full upon us. 1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 680 (Fire engine) The water issuing out of the tube that darts it. 1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea xiv. 258 The Camelion..when a fly comes in his way..darts out his Tongue with utmost swiftness. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 720 His gentle eye Grew stern, and darted a severe rebuke. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 272/1 Darting the bill with sudden velocity into the water. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. viii. 174 Her eyes..darted flashes of anger as she spoke. 4. intransitive. To throw a dart or other missile. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge missile [verb (intransitive)] > cast dart or spear dart1530 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 506/2 These Yrisshe men darte best, or throwe a darte best of all men. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xiii. §7. 437 One Laodocus in darting. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 72 They pursue her [the whale] and dart two or three times more at her. 5. To move like a dart; to spring or start with a sudden rapid motion; to shoot. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly and suddenly windc897 shootc1000 smite?c1225 flatc1300 lash13.. girda1400 shock?a1400 spara1400 spritc1400 whipc1440 skrim1487 glance1489 spang1513 whip1540 squirt1570 flirt1582 fly1590 sprunt1601 flame1633 darta1640 strike1639 jump1720 skite1721 scoot1758 jink1789 arrow1827 twitch1836 skive1854 sprint1899 skyhoot1901 catapult1928 slingshot1969 book1977 a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger False One ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Qq3/2 Destructions darting from their lookes. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. I. 119 They dart away with the swiftness of the wind. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. i. 2 A thousand vague fears darted athwart her mind. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xiii. 202 ‘No, no’, said little Ruth, darting up. 1885 Spectator 18 July 950/1 A deer darts out of the copse. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. ix. 296 The road got level again as it darted away towards Geneva. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1330v.c1374
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