| 单词 | to pitch the bar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto pitch the bar d. transitive. to pitch the bar: to throw a heavy bar as a form of athletic exercise or contest. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > contend in athletics [verb (intransitive)] > throw weight, shot, etc. to cast, put, or throw the stonec1300 putc1300 to pitch the bar1600 to put the shot1884 1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood Satyre iv. sig. D8v To pitch the barre, or to shoote off a gunne. 1638 T. Nabbes Totenham Court (1882) I. ii. ii. 120 He pitcheth the barr and throws the stone. 1718 M. Prior Alma i, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 331 While John for Nine-pins does declare; And Roger loves to pitch the bar. 1885 Cent. Mag. July 399/1 The whalers on Nantucket strove to excel in an ancient English sport called ‘pitching the bar’. 1926 Times 18 June 17/5 Foot-racing, jumping, pitching the bar and hammer, [etc.]. 2003 Observer (Nexis) 1 June 13 Robert Dover established an English version of the Olympic Games..at Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, that is still held annually in June. Events included card games, chess, dancing, running, jumping, throwing the hammer, pitching the bar, wrestling and shin kicking. < as lemmas |
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