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单词 loose shot
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loose shot
k. Free for disposal; unattached, unappropriated, unoccupied. Obsolete except in some jocular expressions. †loose shot: marksmen not attached to a company. loose card (see quot. 17631).
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > [adjective] > not put to any purpose
waste1439
loose1479
undisposed1483
undisposed1631
undedicated1661
unengaged1711
undesignated1795
society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > one bearing or using handgun > collectively > type of
loose shot1590
1479 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 51 I will that the seid priste be founde the residue of the seid vij yeers wt my loose godes.
1479 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 52 My executors pesably to ocupye my loose goodes.
1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 17 Mosquettiers..are not to be imployed as loose shot in skirmishes.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. iii. 54 A File of Boyes,..loose shot . View more context for this quotation
1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. xxi. 234 The Enemy thereupon put out some of their loose shot from their battle, and entertayned the fight.
1759 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) III. 798 Such as could render themselves agreeable to him in his loose hours.
1763 E. Hoyle Whist 82 Loose Card, Means a Card in a Hand that is of no Value, and consequently the properest to throw away.
1763 S. Johnson Let. 16 Apr. (1992) I. 221 I hope you read..at loose hours other books.
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iv. i. 131 In the void's loose field.
1839 I. Taylor Anc. Christianity I. 465 A devout and wealthy layman resolves to spend a loose five and twenty thousand pounds on sacred architecture.
1900 Daily News 30 Mar. 3/3 With a handful of hastily levied farmers,..aided by the ‘loose talent’ of Europe.
extracted from looseadj.n.2adv.
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