单词 | at long weapons |
释义 | > as lemmasat long weapons f. Scottish. at long weapons: (fighting) at long range, rather than at close quarters. Also figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > [adverb] > at long range at long weapons1721 1721 A. Welwood Meditations 158 You were of too meek a Nature to hold the Devil and his Slaves at long Weapons. 1723 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 16 This would be..liker honest men, than to keep us at long weapons, and fighting in the dark. 1754 J. MacLaurin Nature Eccl. Govt. 55 He undertakes to fight us at long weapons. < as lemmas |
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