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单词 to rake out
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to rake out (also away, off)
a. intransitive. Falconry. To fly along after a quarry. to rake out (also away, off): to drift away from the falconer; to fly wide of or away from a quarry. Also occasionally used of the quarry itself.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > action of hawk > [verb (intransitive)] > fly away from quarry
to rake out (also away, off)1575
to turn tail1575
to turn taila1586
check1615
to fly at check1667
the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > action of hawk > [verb (intransitive)] > fly at quarry
enoisel?1533
rake1797
bolt1855
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 121 Hoode hir vp without any rewarde: and hereby she will the lesse delyght to rake out after a checke.
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 151 Your hawke will learne to giue ouer a fowle that rakes out.
1615 G. Markham Countrey Contentments i. viii. 93 If your Hawke..rake and gase after euery checke, neither respecting whooping nor gibbeting, in this case you must [etc.].
1674 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation ii. 106 Whistle her off your Fist, standing still to see..whether she will rake out or not.
1797 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 344/2 It frequently happens, that they escape from the hawk, and she, not recovering them, rakes after them.
1852 R. F. Burton Falconry in Valley of Indus iii. 28 When the bird mounts, the hawk rakes along after it.
1852 R. F. Burton Falconry in Valley of Indus iii. 31 She ‘checked’ first at one bird, then at the other,..and lastly,..she ‘raked off’.
1855 F. H. Salvin & W. Brodrick Falconry in Brit. Isles 46 A Hawk is particularly liable to ‘rake away’, and amuse itself with an occasional stoop at any bird that may pass.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Merlin & Vivien 125 in Idylls of King She is too noble..to check at pies, Nor will she rake.
1900 E. B. Mitchell Art & Pract. of Hawking ii. 24 The lanner..is apt to rake away and check at pigeons.
1983 Times 12 Aug. 8/2 A falcon that is flown without bathing is likely to rake away in search of water.
2005 H. Peeters & P. Peeters Raptors of Calif. 53 Aerial pursuit may be short and direct, as preferred by short-winged hawks, or it may rake across the sky as a falcon stoops at its prey.
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