| 单词 | to play at wasters |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play at wasters 3. Fencing with a ‘waster’; single-stick, cudgel-play. Also plural esp. in to play at wasters. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > fencing or exercise with sticks or cudgels > [noun] waster1519 wastership1575 single billeta1625 cudgels1630 quarterstaff1631 cudgel-playa1635 back-sword1699 cudgel-playing1717 hurlbatting1744 single-stick1771 short-staff1775 cudgelling1787 stick fighting1845 stick play1849 back-swording1857 kendo1921 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxxii. f. 281 Let vs pley at buckeler and at waster in feyre game... This waster [L. rudis] is nat laufull. 1594 1st Pt. Raigne Selimus sig. H I thought my selfe as proper a fellow at wasters, as any in all our village. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. T To see a Gillian draggell taile..play at wasters with a quil for the britches. 1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore ii. ii. 96 If o're husbands their wiues will needes be Masters, We men will haue a law to win't at wasters. 1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §11. 206 Such kind of recreations as..playing at wasters and foines. 1636 King & Queenes Entertainement Richmond (Bang) 11 And what can Richard doe, play a little at wasters, and make the blood..run about his vellowes eares at a Wake. < as lemmas |
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