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单词 ostridge
释义

ostridgen.

Forms: Middle English estriche, Middle English ostrycche, 1600s ostridge.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item; perhaps modelled on a French lexical item. Etymon: ostour n.
Etymology: Alteration of ostour n. after ostrich n. (compare forms at that entry), perhaps influenced by Middle French oustour ostour n. (see quot. ?a1425 at main sense).
Obsolete.
A goshawk.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > genus Accipiter > accipiter gentilis (goshawk)
goshawkc1000
ostour1293
ostridgec1330
thief1486
star-hawk1668
pigeon hawk1731
blue hawk?a1775
gos1787
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) 176 (MED) Michel he couþe of hauk & hounde, Of estriche faucouns [c1475 Caius ostours] of gret mounde.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 157 Bryddes as Ostrycches [Fr. oustours], Gerfacouns, Sparehaukes.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Astrucier,..an Ostridger; one that keepes or catches, Ostridges.
1692 C. Gildon Post-boy rob'd of his Mail I. cxxvi. 386 Apollo order'd it to be made up into Pellets, to feed his Ostridges.

Compounds

ostridge-keeper n. Obsolete rare a keeper of goshawks; = austringer n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > falconer > [noun] > keeper of type of hawk
austringer1472
sperviter1486
ostridge-keeper1653
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. lv. 242 Before them stood the falconrie, managed by Ostridge-keepers [Fr. astruciers] and Falconers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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