| 单词 | eagle-cock |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseagle-cock eagle-cock n. now rare a weathervane in the form of an eagle.Only with reference to the weathervane on the spire of Old St Paul's Cathedral in London, which was destroyed by fire in 1561 (cf. quot. a1500 at sense 2d). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > meteorological instruments > [noun] > wind-vane or weather-cock cock?a1300 weathercocka1300 fanec1386 vane1425 fan?a1500 thane1570 weather-flag1611 eagle-cock1694 girella1720 weathervane1721 dogvane1769 weather-fane1773 girouette1822 wind-vane1858 pendant1860 wind-cock1920 1694 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 18) iii. 600 On which was a Cross..and, on that an Eagle-Cock of Copper, Gilt. 1888 Antiquary May 204/1 Old St. Paul's had an eagle-cock. 1958 E. S. De Maré London's Riverside ii. 42 At its apex gleams a great ball of copper-gilt,..surmounted by a cross fifteen feet high from which a proud eagle-cock surveys the City below. < as lemmas |
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