| 单词 | lark-catcher |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslark-catcher a. General use in various types of compound, as in lark-catcher, lark egg, lark song, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowler > [noun] > using snare or net > trapper of specific birds lark-catcher1618 larker1634 sparrower1830 mutton-birder1881 birder1918 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cx. 1352 Qvaile eiren beþ..more þan larke eiren... Þe quaile..is of lasse flight þan a larke and liþ vnder a clotte, as þe larke doþ. 1618 in N. Breton Conceyted Lett. sig. B3 Gee that knoweth not a Cuckowe from a Nightingale, is like vnto a Lark-catcher, that hauing caught an Owle, tooke her for a fine Hawke. 1839 H. Martineau Deerbrook I. v. 86 The air was full of lark music. 1856 Congregationalist (Boston) 25 July 1/6 When the lark-song thee awaketh, Drive thee then thy team afield. 1866 R. Leighton in Westm. Gaz. (1909) 6 Mar. 6/3 Deep in my soul the throbbing lark-notes lie. 1879 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 79 Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark-charmèd. 1990 D. Attenborough Trials of Life x. 229 The honey-guide is a lark-sized bird that lives in east Africa. 2015 D. Chandler et al. Identifying Common Brit. Birds 126 There are fewer more vivid experiences than walking in the countryside and being drenched in lark song for hour after hour. < as lemmas |
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