| 单词 | stalking ox |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstalking ox b. attributive as stalking engine, stalking gelding, stalking-ground, stalking ox, stalking-shoe, stalking-system, stalking-telescope. Also stalking-horse n. ΚΠ 1531 Privy Purse Exp. Hen. VIII (1827) 112 Paied to a servant of my lorde lisles in Rewarde for bringing of the Stalking Oxe, x s. 1531 Privy Purse Exp. Hen. VIII (1827) 132 For the mete of the kingis white stalking guelding. 1621 G. Markham Hungers Preuention x. 64 The last of these stalking Engines is the dead hedge of two or three yards long. 1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. xiv. 313 I resolved to try the stalking-system with these, and to hunt the troop of bulls with dogs and horses. 1861 G. H. Kingsley in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 116 When we reach the stalking-ground. 1900 F. T. Pollok & W. S. Thom Wild Sports Burma & Assam 253 My stalking shoes. 1925 A. G. Arbuthnot in G. Burrard Big Game Hunting 118 Good field glasses..and a good stalking-telescope are indispensable. < as lemmas |
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