单词 | to shoot a shot |
释义 | > as lemmasto shoot a shot (or †a shoot) c. With cognate object, to shoot a shot (or †a shoot). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > assail with missiles [verb (transitive)] > discharge (missile) > from weapon shoota900 to shoot a shot (or a shoot)1297 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 11103 An carpenter þat hii sede þat sset þe ssute [MS. Add. þane schote] hii nome. c1400 Pilgr. Sowle (1859) iv. xxix. 61 But, soothly, they sheten neuer shotte. 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 1v For in a rayne and at no marke, a man may shote a fayre shoote. 1590 H. Barwick Breefe Disc. Weapons 17 (margin) The archer dooth require more time then dooth the firy weapon to shoot the first shoot. 1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. xiii. 208 All this while the Enemy shot not a shot. 1644 J. Vicars Jehovah-jireh 193 They forced all the Musketeers..to..shroud themselves within their pikes, not daring to shoot a shoot. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality iii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 65 May the hand be withered that shot the shot! < as lemmas |
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