| 单词 | jobbing-spear |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjobbing-spear General attributive, as jobbing-knife, jobbing-spear. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > [adjective] > striking with pushing action jobbing1831 1831 Sporting Mag. Mar. 322/1 The jobbing spear must always excite the utmost rage of the boar. 1870 tr. E. Erckmann & P. A. Chatrian Waterloo Blockade Phalsburg in C. Gibbon Casquet of Lit. 122 These men with their jobbing-knives in their leather belts. 1889 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Pigsticking 89 Two kinds of spear are used in India, the long or ‘underhand’ spear, and the short or ‘jobbing’ spear. 1929 Chambers's Jrnl. May 332/1 I have always used the long spear as distinguished from the jobbing or short spear. < as lemmas |
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