| 单词 | self-yew |
| 释义 | > as lemmasself-yew self-yew adj. and n. Archery (a) adj. designating a self bow made of yew; (b) n. a self-yew bow; unbacked yew as material for a bow. ΚΠ 1801 T. Roberts Eng. Bowman 135 (note) Yet many excellent archers give the preference to the self-yew-bow. 1852 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib.: Supplementary Vol. 1511/2 Bows of Spanish and English self-yew. 1856 H. A. Ford Archery iii. 20 The advocates of the self-yew affirm their pet weapon to be the sweetest in use, the steadiest in hand, the most certain in cast, and the most beautiful to the eye. 1912 W. Johnson Byways Brit. Archaeol. ix. 390 Modern bowyers have largely abandoned ‘self-yew’ bows. 1929 A. W. Lambert Jr. Mod. Archery xxii. 181 This score was made with the forty-two-pound self-yew used a few weeks before at the National Tournament. 2008 H. D. H. Soar Romance of Archery v. 153 Despite possessing an extensive collection of the work of nineteenth-century bowyers, I have just one self-yew bow by Feltham. < as lemmas |
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