单词 | targeteer |
释义 | targeteern. Obsolete exc. Historical. A foot-soldier armed with a target; a peltast. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > man wearing armour > [noun] > man armed with shield targeter1382 paviserc1425 pavisec1500 target man1555 targeteera1593 targeman?17.. hypaspista1827 a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. F3v A band of bowmen and of pikes, Browne bils, and targetiers, 400 strong. 1600 F. Pretty in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 812 Our General himselfe with certaine shot and some targettiers went ouer into the maine. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxviii. v. 670 A thousand targuattiers called Peltati. 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 11 He [sc. Charles VII of France]..adioined to them Targatiers, Harbengers, Muster-masters. 1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads 53 He found him out With many targetiers environed. 1824 T. B. Macaulay Misc. Writings (1860) I. 176 The targeteers of Iphicrates. 1881 B. Jowett tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 147 The Chalcidian hoplites..were assisted by a few targeteers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1593 |
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