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单词 to be at fall
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to be at (the) fall
b. The killing or death of an animal hunted as game; the kill. to be at (the) fall: to be present at the kill (cf. in at the kill at kill n.1 2b). Also in figurative contexts. Obsolete.
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slaughtera1300
to make larder ofa1330
murdering?a1475
fall1575
butchering1609
ovicide1828
felicide1832
poultrycide1841
piscicide1847
vealing1847
kill1850
slaughterage1854
birdicide1862
apricide1864
insecticide1865
vulpicidism1865
vulpicide1873
serpenticide1882
tauricide1882
vaccicide1887
leporicide1914
culling1938
cull1958
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xlii. 127 When the Harte is kylled, then all the huntesmen whiche be at fall of him, shall blowe a note..to the ende that the rest of the companies with all the houndes may come in.
1611 T. Heywood Golden Age ii. i. sig. E2 Iup. Shall wee here repose our selues a little? Cal. And loose the honour to be first at fall?
1615 G. Wither Shepherds Hunting ii. in Juvenilia (1622) sig. Kk2 Despaire came in, and grip't him to the hart. I hallowed in the resdue to the fall.
1664 T. Killigrew 2nd Pt. Cicilia & Clorinda ii. iii. in Comedies & Trag. 278 The open Countrey will sure make the Chase much more pleasant; for our hills keep us from being in at the fall, which is the heat, and pleasure of the Chase.
1713 J. Kersey New Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) at Moot To blow a moot, at the fall of a Deer.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor viii. in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 228 I will meet you after the fall of the stag, for I hear they are blowing him at bay.
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