单词 | to be at fall |
释义 | > as lemmasto be at (the) fall ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > [noun] 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. < as lemmas |
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