| 单词 | badger tongs |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbadger tongs badger tongs n. tongs used to grasp a badger as it emerges from its hole, or to pull it out. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > [noun] > tongs badger tongs1856 1856 Sporting Rev. Dec. 398 To drag out those [puppies] that began to have any symptoms [of hydrophobia], with a huge pair of badger tongs. 1928 Sunday Disp. 15 July 2 Mr. Tinker..got his badger-tongs... ‘Get the tongs round his neck—quick!’ said the Master..as he pushed forward the long iron instrument. 1998 Gloucester Citizen (Nexis) 2 Dec. 37 (caption) Badger tongs were the less hazardous way of getting the cornered badger into a sack. 2013 C. Rodgers Law of Nature Conservation v. 185 It is an offence to cruelly ill-treat a badger, to use badger tongs in the course of killing or taking, or attempting to kill or take, a badger. < as lemmas |
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