| 单词 | fur-bill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfur-bill = furze n. Chiefly in combination, as fur-bill, fur-bush (-busk), fur-stack; fur chuck n. the bird furze-chat. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [noun] > gorse or furze gorsec725 furzec888 whinc1400 fur1440 quice tree1440 whin-bush1483 furzen bush1530 thorn-broom1578 thorny broom1597 fursell1639 dwarf furze1650 French furze1659 ulex1753 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Saxicola > saxicola rubetra (whinchat) stone-check1668 stone-smatch1668 whinchat1678 stonechat1783 stone-chatter1783 grasschat1805 furze-chat1839 tick1848 stone-chacker1853 furze-hacker1862 fur chuck1885 stone-clink1885 tec-tec1886 1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 162/1 Fyyre, sharpe brusche (K. firre, whynne, P. fyir or qwynne), saliunca. c1540 R. Morice in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) 24 A gentilman..toke a fyrre bushe on..a pitche-fork, and being all sett on fyer thruste it into his moth. 1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. 69, in Bulwarke of Defence The Brome and the Whin or Furre bushe. 1606 L. Bryskett Disc. Ciuill Life 22 He that shooteth at a starre, aimeth higher then he that shooteth at a furbush. 1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh II. 13 We are guarding the place now with duck-guns, fur-bills, and other spears. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 11 Whinchat (Pratincola rubetra)..Furr chuck (Norfolk). 1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) Fur-bill, a bill-hook: perhaps a furze-bill. Fur-busk, a bush of gorse. Fur-stack, a stack of gorse. < as lemmas |
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