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单词 stone-bow
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stone-bown.

/ˈstəʊnbəʊ/
Etymology: Compare Middle High German steinboge = sense 2, Old Norse steinboge = sense 1.
1. [bow n.1 3.] An arch of stone. Obsolete except as the name of one of the gates of Lincoln.
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OE Beowulf 2545 Geseah ða be wealle..stondan stanbogan.
2. [bow n.1 4.] A kind of crossbow or catapult used for shooting stones. Obsolete.
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1419 Liber Albus (Rolls) I. 278 Quod nullus portet arcum vocatum ‘Stonebowe’.
1543 in Acts Privy Council (1890) I. 104 Breaking wyth stonebowes off certeyne wyndowes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. v. 44.
1619 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher King & No King v. sig. K1v Children will shortly take him for a wall, And set their stone-bowes in his forehead.
1660 Act 12 Chas. II c. 4 Sched. s.v. Bowes, vocat. stone-bowes of steel, the piece, x. s.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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