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单词 to call to the lure
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to call to the lure (also hand, fist, etc.)
18. transitive. Falconry. To summon or recall (a hawk) to one's hand or the lure. Frequently in to call to the lure (also hand, fist, etc.).
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?a1450 Percy Poem on Falconry (Yale) l. 492 in Studier i Modern Språkvetenskap (1968) 3 26 When ȝe calle her & she comys, cast the lure away.
1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 52 To Calle a hawke, stupare.
?1530 Dialoges Creatures Moralysed lv. sig. R.iv The knyght..caught the Cocke and kyllyd him lyghtlye, and shewyd a legge of him to the faulcon & callyd him therwith, to his honde.
1573 G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 341 I fond foole with emptie hand must call, The gorged Hauke, which likes no lure at all.
1614 S. Latham Falconry Explan. Wordes sig. ¶2 Faulconers call their young Hawkes by casting it vp in the aire, being made of feathers and leather in such wise that in the motion it lookes not vnlike a fowle.
1615 G. Markham Countrey Contentments i. viii. 89 Short-winged Hawkes are sayd to be called and not lured.
1620 N. Rogers True Convert 92 Not like a tame bird that may againe be caught by running after, nor like a Hawke that may be called to the lure.
1778 T. Tyrwhitt Canterbury Tales of Chaucer V. 123 Lure, a device used by falconers for calling their hawks.
1859 G. E. Freeman & F. H. Salvin Falconry vi. 83 The falconer has only to call the hawk to his fist by a ‘tiring’, or well-picked leg or wing of a rook.
1900 E. B. Michell Art & Pract. Hawking ix. 133 She must constantly be called to the fist.
1951 T. H. White Goshawk i. 38 In the end he was to come a distance of at least a hundred yards, the moment he was called.
2014 H. Macdonald H is for Hawk (2015) xiv. 134 I had called so many hawks before, but calling Mabel was different.
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