单词 | archery |
释义 | archeryn. 1. The practice or art of shooting with bow and arrow; skill as an archer. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > use of bow and arrow > [noun] archerya1400 shootage?c1547 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [noun] archerya1400 artilleryc1550 toxophilitism1840 toxology1843 toxophilism1887 toxophily1887 a1400 Cov. Myst. 44 Myht nevyr man fynde My pere of archerye. a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) ix. 3137 Gud yomen for archery. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iv. iii. 2 Sir boy let me see your Archerie . View more context for this quotation 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. lxxii. 44 Doom'd to die,..by Love's sad archery. 1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 25 An Archery meeting or a pic-nic. 2. collective. An archer's weapons; bows, arrows, etc. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > archer's weapons > [noun] archery1440 fletchery1594 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 14 Archerye, sagittaria, arcus. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iv, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 77 [Their bows] as well as their arrows, were..far inferior to the archery of merry England. 1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 July 8/2 An archery manufacturer. 3. collective. A company or corps of archers. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > archer > collectively archeryc1560 c1560 Hunting Cheviot in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 309 He rod vppon a corsiare Throughe a hondrith archery. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles vi. xxii. 252 Signal for England's archery To halt and bend their bows. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > [noun] > specific service bedrip1226 needbedripc1284 sorren1289 penny-eartha1300 corvée1340 plough-boon1388 timber-lodec1400 carriage1423 sickle-boon1438 foreign servicea1475 average1489 castle-guard1576 boonage1610 reaping day1657 reap day1663 archery1691 boon-work1883 bene-rip- 1691 Blount's Νομο-λεξικον (ed. 2) Archery was a Service of keeping a Bow for the Use of the Lord, to defend his Castle [per Serjeantiam Archeriæ, Coke On Litt. 107 a.] Compounds archery-ball n. ΚΠ 1806 M. Edgeworth Moral Tales (ed. 2) III. 169 He saw, and was struck with the beauty of lady Augusta——at this archery ball. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. ii. xi 208 The archery ball..was not an escapement for youthful high spirits. 1919 Times 24 Oct. 6/2 On the night of the Archery Ball he found Mrs. Everitt sitting outside in an unlighted tent with a young officer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1400 |
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