单词 | markman |
释义 | markmann. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > [noun] > shooter markman1562 marksman1641 markswoman1802 marker1820 shootist1864 target-shot1905 1562 J. Mountgomery in Archaeologia (1883) 47 219 Shootinge wth haile shotte..vtterlie distroith ye good gonner and marreth the marcke man. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande viii. f. 28/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I The kerne, who is an ordinary souldior, vsing..sometimes hys peece, beyng commonly so good markemen as they will come within a score of a great castle. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. i. 203 A right good mark man . View more context for this quotation 1614 S. Rowlands Fooles Bolt 15 in Compl. Wks. (1880) II Wee giue them warning to refraine such Bolts, As they (the Diuels markmen) shoote at dolts. 1654 R. Flecknoe Ten Years Trav. 78 Arrows (with which they are the best mark men in the world). ΚΠ 1849 J. M. Kemble Saxons in Eng. I. ii. 54 With the custom of one Mark, another had nothing to do, and the Markmen, within their own limit, were independent. 1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. iii. 49 Each of the mark-men has there his homestead. 1890 H. de B. Gibbins Industr. Hist. Eng. i. ii. 6 The members of the mark, or mark-men, met in a common council called the mark-moot. 3. Freemasonry. = mark mason n. at mark n.1 Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > secret society > [noun] > the Freemasons > member > type of member or official fellow-craft1696 master mason1696 grand master1722 master1722 wardena1723 pass-master1762 mark (master) mason1769 superexcellent1796 markman1853 Templar1859 1853 G. Oliver Dict. Symbolical Masonry at Mason Marks Those brethren who have been initiated into the degrees of Mark-Man and Mark-Master. 1992 F. Smyth Pick & Knight's Pocket Hist. Freemasonry (ed. 9) xi. 220 It will be noted that there was a distinction between Mark Mason and Mark Master. This survives in English practice today where the candidate is made a Mark Man before becoming a Mark Master Mason. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1562 |
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