| 单词 | at long bowls |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(to play) at long bowls 2. figurative. The exchange of artillery fire at a considerable distance, esp. between ships. Esp. in (to play) at long bowls. Cf. long ball n. 2. Now historical and rare.Frequently as part of an extended metaphor. ΚΠ 1780 St. James's Chron. 26 Aug. At long Bowls, they played the Devil with our Masts and Rigging. 1798 G. Duncan Constant Lovers iii. 64 Pipes. The Captain must lay her along-side; and board her at once. Boatswain. Let him alone for that—He does not like your long bowls. 1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 358 ‘Long bowls’, said Curtis to Savage, ‘will not answer: you must yard-arm it with your adversary.’ 1893 W. Forbes-Mitchell Reminisc. Great Mutiny iii. 34 He can play at long bowls as well as you can, especially from behind loopholed walls. 1914 N. Amer. Rev. Aug. 213 Downie would have had to be an exceptional man to play at ‘long bowls’ for advantage. 1991 P. O'Brian Nutmeg of Consol. (1993) iv. 84 With her twenty nine-pounders, the Nutmeg could not play at long bowls with the French thirty-two-gun eighteen-pounder frigate. < as lemmas |
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