| 单词 | hag way |
| 释义 | > as lemmashag way ΚΠ 1878 Notes & Queries 26 Jan. 68/2 Narrow paths are made through the thick undergrowth in large woods to enable the keepers and beaters to drive the game. A Rutland gamekeeper calls such paths as these ‘hagways’. 1878 Notes & Queries 29 June 514/2 Five and twenty years ago..a woodman..I was consulting..as to the best means of getting away timber which had been cut down in a plantation thick with underwood. ‘We mun cut a hag roo-ad thro' t'underbrush, maister,’ was his reply. 1886 St. James's Gaz. 8 Jan. 6/2 He [sc. the poacher] closely scans the weather, and will at evening pass under the wood and down by the ‘hag’ path. 1886 Notes & Queries 6 Nov. 366/2 Hag-ways—This is a South Lincolnshire word, used by keepers, beaters, and sportsmen to signify the narrow winding paths that are cut through the undergrowth of a wood, to allow the shooters to get at the game. < as lemmas |
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