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单词 shaw-fowl
释义

shaw-fowln.

Etymology: < shaw (of obscure origin) + fowl n.It is improbable that the first element is shaw , the northern form of show v. Compare West Flemish schuw, scarecrow, but it is not easy to see how this can be formally connected.
Obsolete. rare.
A scarecrow, also figurative. Also an artificial bird set up as a mark for shooting at.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > bird-scarer
scarlec1440
scare1530
blencher1531
shail1531
fray-boggard1535
crow-keeper1562
malkinc1565
clacket1594
scarecrow1606
clap-mill1613
field keeper1620
shaw-fowl1621
bean-shatter1639
clapper1660
dudman1670
clack1678
hobidy-booby?1710
worricow1711
cherry-clapper1763
flay-crake1788
potato-bogle1815
cherry-clack1824
feather-piea1825
flay-crow1824
gally-baggar1825
gally-crow1825
bogle1830
tatie-bogle1838
shewel1888
scare-string1889
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > [noun] > scarecrow or device for scaring birds
buga1425
scarlec1440
scare1530
blencher1531
shail1531
fray-boggard1535
malkinc1565
clacket1594
bogle-bo1603
scarecrow1606
blinks1611
clap-mill1613
shaw-fowl1621
dudman1670
hobidy-booby?1710
cherry-clapper1763
flay-crake1788
potato-bogle1815
cherry-clack1824
feather-piea1825
flay-crow1824
gally-baggar1825
gally-crow1825
bogle1830
deadman1839
hodmandod1881
scarer1930
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [noun] > archery target
bercelc1440
butt1440
shell1497
rover1511
standing pricka1525
round1531
popinjay1548
prick-mark1553
Turk1569
twelve (also twenty-four) score prick1569
garden butt1572
parrot1578
clout1584
hoyle1614
shaw-fowl1621
prick wanda1650
goal1662
1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 323 As Shaw-Fowles are in a Corne-Field, which skarre away the Crowes and Birds at first erecting.
1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? To Rdr. Terrible Shawe-fowles to skarre poore Soules.
1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? ii. 13 You set up a Shaw foule for a mark and shoot your bolt at it yourselfe alone.
1624 R. Montagu Immediate Addresse 131 If they vrge Angelicall Reuelation, then that vnanswerable Argument of the Controuerser is but as a Shaw foule, in a Corne field.
1625 R. Montagu in J. Cosin Corr. 11 Jan. (1872) II. xxviii. 45 I feare not those shaw-foules of convention.
1654 A. Tuckney Θανατοκτασία 78 Such shaw-fowls do not scare me.
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Shawfowl, an artificial Bird made on purpose for Fowlers to shoot at.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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