单词 | to play loose |
释义 | > as lemmasto play loose a. intransitive. To contend or fight using weapons; to engage in martial games; spec. to joust; to fence. to play loose (Fencing): to attack an opponent. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > joust or tilt [verb (intransitive)] playeOE bourdisec1320 joustc1330 copec1350 tourney1390 coup?a1400 joustenc1400 to joust of warc1400 to run togetherc1410 bourda1500 to fight at barriers1532 runa1533 to run at (the) tilt1548 jostle1580 tilt1595 to break a treea1600 to run (or ride) a-tilt1608 to run tilt1831 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > fence [verb (intransitive)] playeOE skirmisha1387 to play at bucklersa1500 swash1556 fencea1616 tilt1699 wrench1771 eOE Battle of Brunanburh (Parker) 52 Þæs hi on wælfelda wiþ Eadweardes afaran plegodan. OE Prognostics (Tiber.) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1910) 125 56 Gladium ferre & de ipso ludere, anxietatem significat : swurd beran & be him plegean unheaðnysse g[etacnaþ]. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 4062 Þeos tweien cnihtes bi-gunnen mid sceldes to scurmen; ærst heo pleoweden [c1300 Otho pleoiden] and seoððe pliht makeden. c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) 4052 And pleoiden in þan feldes mid sceaftes and mid scealdes. c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Laud) (1901) 186 (MED) Vs he dude lede In to a galeie, Wiþ þe se to pleie. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 1195 (MED) William..so wiȝtliche pleide, þat he slow six of þe grettes[t]. ?a1425 (?a1350) T. Castleford Chron. (1940) 21417 (MED) Sum plaide on horse and sum on fote. a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. 11838 Wonder were elles, or art me failles, But þey playe wyþ repentailles. c1450 (a1400) Libeaus Desconus (Calig. A.ii) (1969) 1557 (MED) My lord, wyth sper and scheld, Comeþ wyth yow to play. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique i. f. 7v I maie commende hym for plaiyng at weapons. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. ii. 154 + 4 He sends to know if your pleasure hold to play with Laertes. 1687 W. Hope Scots Fencing-master vi. 137 Whither you be to play with Blunts, or Sharps, endeavour..to play Calmly. 1792 in R. Southey Life A. Bell (1844) I. 440 The officers..passed the whole day in the Sun, playing at long bullets. 1809 J. Roland Amateur of Fencing ii. i. 145 To make an assault, or as it is sometimes called ‘to play loose’, is the imitation of two adversaries..which the moderns term ‘fencing’. < as lemmas |
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