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单词 barbed-cat
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barbed-catn.

Forms: late Middle English barbed catte.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: barbed adj.1, cat n.1
Etymology: Apparently < barbed adj.1 + cat n.1 (compare cat n.1 6a). Perhaps compare also barbed adj.2
Obsolete.
A military engine; see quot. 1489.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > engine of war > [noun] > movable shed
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1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xxix. I vj b For to make a werrely holde that men calle a barbed catte, and a bewfray that shal have ix. fadome of lengthe and two of brede, and the said catte six fadome of lengthe and two of brede.
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