| 单词 | grey-goose shaft |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrey-goose shaft grey-goose shaft n. an arrow fletched with grey goose feathers; cf. grey-goose wing n. ΚΠ 1798 Morcar & Elfina 6 So have I seen the grey-goose shaft, That struck the noblest deer. 1817 W. Scott Harold ii. iii. 45 When from Wulfstane's bended yew Sprung forth the grey-goose shaft. 1856 New Monthly Mag. 107 301/1 Fair shoot the Lincoln bowmen..; And their grey-goose shafts are hidden In the noblest of the realm. 1903 Gael Aug. 242/2 A..grey-goose shaft quivered in the center of the target. 2008 C. Paolini Brisingr (2010) 522 The archers who still had arrows maintained their lethal barrage, their gray-goose shafts penetrating bone and sinew alike. < as lemmas |
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