| 单词 | manual exercise |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmanual exercise b. In plural. Military drill, athletics, field sports, dancing, etc. Also in singular as a collective term, or in sense of ‘a drill or parade’. Often with distinguishing words, as bayonet-exercise, cutlass-exercise, small arm-exercise, sword-, etc., exercise; also manual exercise (see manual adj. and n.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [noun] playeOE stirringa1400 laboura1530 exercisea1533 activity1542 motion1568 gymnastic1598 gymnastics1652 capriccio1665 grind1857 physical drill1873 ekker1891 physical jerks1917 daily dozen1918 workout1923 sexercise1942 a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. B.viijv The father of Marke Aurelee themperour, had bene pretour in exercyses [mistranslating de los exercitos]. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) i. i. 68 Allow me such exercises as may become a gentleman. View more context for this quotation 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 9 [George Villiers] spent two or three years in..learning the exercises of Riding and Dancing. 1704 London Gaz. No. 3104 Let them [able Bodied Men] repair to Captain Silver..at his House..or at the Exercise on Black-Heath. a1719 J. Addison in Wks. (c1888) I. 374 The French apply themselves more universally to their exercises than any nation. 1729 A. Pope Dunciad (new ed.) ii. (Argt.) Afterwards the exercises for the Poets, of Tickling, Vociferating, Diving. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xviii. 483 The exercises of the body prepared them for the fatigues of war. a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) iii. 144 The several Companies..were forming and learning their Exercise. 1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry 258 As steady in the ranks, as if he was at a common exercise. manual exercise manual exercise n. Military drill in handling a rifle or (formerly) a musket. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > drill or training > [noun] > weapon-training > manual exercise manual exercise1738 manual1762 1738 S.-Carolina Gaz. 2 Nov. 2/2 The Officers drew out and form'd a distinct Company, and went thro' the manual Exercise and the Facings with great Exactness and general Approbation. 1760 (title) New manual exercise as performed by His Majesty's Dragoons, Foot-guards, Foot, Artillery, Marines. 1826 H. D. Best Four Years France 318 He engaged a sous-officier to come daily to the house to teach him the manual exercise. 1904 N.E.D. at Recover sb. A position of the fire-arm forming part of the manual exercise. < as lemmas |
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