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单词 sarbacane
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sarbacanen.

/ˈsɑːbəkeɪn/
Forms: Also 1600s sarabatane, 1700s sarbacan, 1800s sabarcane (?), sarbacand (?).
Etymology: < French sarbacane (16th cent.; earlier sarbatenne ) ‘a long trunke to shoot in’ (Cotgrave), also, a speaking-trumpet (Littré), < Spanish cebratana : see cebratane n.
Obsolete exc. historical.
1. A blow-tube or pipe for shooting with. Now historical.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > device for discharging missiles through tube > [noun] > blow-pipe
trunk1553
sumpitan1634
sarbacane1765
blowpipe1825
sumpit1831
blow-gun1864
blow-tube1871
Indian reed1877
1765 H. Timberlake Mem. 45 Children, who..are very expert at killing with a sarbacan.
1825 W. Scott Talisman viii, in Tales Crusaders IV. 163 These cowardly caitiffs come against us with sarbacanes and poisoned shafts.
1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour vi. 87 Substituting for the bow..the Sabarcane [sic], Sumpitan, or blow-tube, the Malays strike objects at great distances.
1878 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 258 Thus originated..slings, sarbacands, lassos.
2. An ear-trumpet. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > healing > audiology or audiometry > [noun] > aids to defective hearing
trunk1546
otacousticon1615
otacoustic1617
ear-spectacle1626
sarbacane1644
acoustic1659
acousticon1660
hearing-trumpet1725
ear trumpet1731
trumpet1774
otophone1839
auricle1864
audiphone1880
osteophone1892
microphonograph1897
hearing aid1922
deaf-aid1934
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xxviii. 251 To this art belongeth the making of sarabatanes, or trunkes, to helpe the hearing.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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