| 单词 | screen perch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasscreen perch screen perch n. Falconry a type of perch typically used in a mews, consisting of a vertical panel of stretched canvas or hessian with a padded horizontal bar for the hawk or falcon to stand on across the top. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > falconry or hawking equipment > [noun] > perch screen perch1889 1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Aug. 3/1 A fine young ‘tiercel’, or male peregrine, was sitting hooded on a screen perch. 1891 J. E. Harting Bibliotheca Accipitraria 229 Screen-perch, the form of perch used for hawks when kept in a room. 1971 Country Life 8 Apr. 799/3 Hawks have to be set to roost on a screen perch which prevents them from bating off and entangling themselves. 2007 Vanity Fair May 168 We began gutting the zoo's old wooden monkey house to create a ‘mews’, or hawk house, installing screen perches, shelf perches, and scales for weighing our hawks. < as lemmas |
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