| 单词 | rook-net |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrook-net rook-net n. ΚΠ 1532 Act 24 Hen. VIII c.10 in Abregement Statutes .xxiii & xxiiii yere Henry the Eyghte (1533) sig. Biiiv The inhabitauntes therof shall before Mychelmas next comynge & yerely .x. yeres ensuyinge / at theyr costes prouyde and make a net commonly called a net to take choughes crowes & rokes.] 1567 in J. E. Binney Accts. of Wardens of Morebath 1520–73 (1904) 232 It for a roke nett to Leuys iijs & iiijd. 1672 Extract from Churchwardens' Bks. in East Anglian Notes & Queries (1866) 2 356 (modernized text) It. for mending the Rook net 1s. 0d. 1710 D. Hilman Tusser Redivivus June 4 There are some odd things that it is hardly worthwhile to provide ones self with, (and where others who have more Occasion for them are willing to lend, such as Ladders of extraordinary size, Draining-Ploughs, Rook-Nets, &c.) that may be dispensed with. 1894 Zoologist 18 50 As to the kind of net formerly known as the ‘Crow-net’ or ‘Rook-net’, a figure of it is given by Leonard Mascall in a folding-plate to his ‘Booke of Fishing’. 1985 D. Underdown Revel, Riot & Rebellion (1987) ii. 12 The village provided essential public services: the sheep-fold, the rook nets, the common cowherd, the mole catcher. < as lemmas |
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