单词 | shaw-fowl |
释义 | † shaw-fowln. Obsolete. rare. A scarecrow, also figurative. Also an artificial bird set up as a mark for shooting at. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1621 |
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