| 单词 | loosing off |
| 释义 | > as lemmasloosing off b. absol. or intransitive. To shoot, let fly. Also said of the gun. Now usually with off. Also loosing off. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge missile [verb (intransitive)] shoot993 loose1387 discharge1481 fire1848 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] gunning1570 fire1590 firing1684 squibbing1697 gunfire1801 gunnery1816 pop-off1843 pluffing1852 machine-gun fire1882 gun-play1897 loosing off1906 the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (intransitive)] > project through space shoota1000 loose1926 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > discharge firearms [verb (intransitive)] to let fly1611 gun1622 fire1635 pop1650 pluff1826 squib1831 crack1835 poop1915 loose1928 to turn on (or give) the heat1928 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 77 Þe childe losed and schette. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 615/1 I thought full lytell he wolde have lowsed at me whan I sawe hym drawe his bowe. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 681/2 Se howe yonder gonne reculeth or ever she lowse. 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 40 Houlde and nocke trewlye, drawe and lowse equallye. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lviv Al the .ii. C. archers shot and losed at once. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iv. iii. 59 [stage direct. He giues them the Arrowes] Too it boy, Marcus loose when I bid. View more context for this quotation 1605 B. Jonson Sejanus iii. i. 725 Nor must he looke at what, or whom to strike, But loose at all. View more context for this quotation 1889 H. R. Haggard Allan's Wife 80 Reserving their fire till the Zulus were packed like sheep in a kraal, they loosed into them with the roers. 1893 Field 25 Mar. 456/3 I threw up my gun mechanically, but had no intention of ‘loosing’ at the poor thing. 1900 Daily News 1 Oct. 7/3 Paget's artillerymen dashed forward, unlimbered, and loosed on the foe. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 9 Mar. 4/1 The man for whom the whole of shooting is comprised in the gunning—in the ‘loosing off’, as he will call it. 1926 Punch 28 July 86/2 The bowler would acquire the trick of looking at one [wicket] while really he was loosing off at the other. 1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War ii. 8 The howitzer loosing off occasionally outside punctuated these amenities. 1946 J. Irving Royal Navalese 110 To loose off, to open fire. < as lemmas |
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