英语词汇“to shoot at rovers”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(a) Archery. An arbitrarily selected mark at an unknown distance from the archer, esp. as used to provide practice in range-finding and long-distance shooting. Hence also in later use: a mark for long-distance shooting. Frequently in to shoot at rovers. Now historical.Often contrasted with butt n.⁷ 2a and prick n. 19a.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [noun] > archery target

bercelc1440

butt1440

shell1497

rover1511

standing pricka1525

round1531

popinjay1548

prick-mark1553

Turk1569

twelve (also twenty-four) score prick1569

garden butt1572

parrot1578

clout1584

hoyle1614

shaw-fowl1621

prick wanda1650

goal1662

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1511 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 315 Tynt be the king at the buttis and revaris in Leith.

1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) v. 44 To schute at buttis, at bankis and brais; Sum at the reveris, sum at the prikkis.

a1600 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 340 The said Inglischemen sould schute aganis thame ether at prickis, reveris or at buttis.

1624 Edinb. Test. LII. f. 329^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue xxiii butt and river arrowes.

β. a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1908) II. 338 Hit is ordeyned..þat noman..shote at Rovers, but at buttis & standyng prikkis.1541–2 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 9. §2 Noe Man under thage of xxiiij yeres shall shoote at any standinge prick excepte it be at a Rover whereat he shall chaunge at every shoote his marke.1615 G. Markham Countrey Contentments 108 The Roauer is a marke incertaine,..and..must haue arrowes lighter or heauier, according to the distance.1728 A. Ramsay On seeing Archers divert Themselves 1 The Rovers and the Butts you saw.1797 Encycl. Brit. II. 214/1 All these prizes are shot for at what is termed rovers, the marks being placed at the distance of 185 yards.1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. xiii. 270 The distance between that station and the mark allowing full distance for what was called a shot at rovers.1856 H. A. Ford Archery 104 Concerning roving, or shooting at rovers, very few words will suffice.1890 A. Conan Doyle White Company (1894) xxxi. 351 When my eye is true, I am better at rovers than at long-butts or hoyles.1907 W. Wroth Cremorne & Later London Gardens 48 Early in the eighteenth century, in the days when the London archers shot at rovers in the Finsbury fields.1943 A. G. Banks Random Writings on Rifle Shooting iv. 27 In about 1500 onwards, the fields around London were open to all to shoot over. They were dotted with ‘marks’, also called ‘rovers’, made of stone or wood, spaced at irregular ranges apart.2009 J. L. Forgeng & W. McLean Daily Life Chaucer's Eng. (ed. 2) 217 When shooting at rovers, archers might carry more than one pair of arrows so they could have arrows suited for different ranges.

单词	to shoot at rovers
释义	> as lemmas to shoot at rovers (a) Archery. An arbitrarily selected mark at an unknown distance from the archer, esp. as used to provide practice in range-finding and long-distance shooting. Hence also in later use: a mark for long-distance shooting. Frequently in to shoot at rovers. Now historical.Often contrasted with butt n.⁷ 2a and prick n. 19a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [noun] > archery target bercelc1440 butt1440 shell1497 rover1511 standing pricka1525 round1531 popinjay1548 prick-mark1553 Turk1569 twelve (also twenty-four) score prick1569 garden butt1572 parrot1578 clout1584 hoyle1614 shaw-fowl1621 prick wanda1650 goal1662 α. 1511 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 315 Tynt be the king at the buttis and revaris in Leith. 1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) v. 44 To schute at buttis, at bankis and brais; Sum at the reveris, sum at the prikkis. a1600 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 340 The said Inglischemen sould schute aganis thame ether at prickis, reveris or at buttis. 1624 Edinb. Test. LII. f. 329^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue xxiii butt and river arrowes. β. a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1908) II. 338 Hit is ordeyned..þat noman..shote at Rovers, but at buttis & standyng prikkis.1541–2 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 9. §2 Noe Man under thage of xxiiij yeres shall shoote at any standinge prick excepte it be at a Rover whereat he shall chaunge at every shoote his marke.1615 G. Markham Countrey Contentments 108 The Roauer is a marke incertaine,..and..must haue arrowes lighter or heauier, according to the distance.1728 A. Ramsay On seeing Archers divert Themselves 1 The Rovers and the Butts you saw.1797 Encycl. Brit. II. 214/1 All these prizes are shot for at what is termed rovers, the marks being placed at the distance of 185 yards.1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. xiii. 270 The distance between that station and the mark allowing full distance for what was called a shot at rovers.1856 H. A. Ford Archery 104 Concerning roving, or shooting at rovers, very few words will suffice.1890 A. Conan Doyle White Company (1894) xxxi. 351 When my eye is true, I am better at rovers than at long-butts or hoyles.1907 W. Wroth Cremorne & Later London Gardens 48 Early in the eighteenth century, in the days when the London archers shot at rovers in the Finsbury fields.1943 A. G. Banks Random Writings on Rifle Shooting iv. 27 In about 1500 onwards, the fields around London were open to all to shoot over. They were dotted with ‘marks’, also called ‘rovers’, made of stone or wood, spaced at irregular ranges apart.2009 J. L. Forgeng & W. McLean Daily Life Chaucer's Eng. (ed. 2) 217 When shooting at rovers, archers might carry more than one pair of arrows so they could have arrows suited for different ranges. extracted from rovern.² < as lemmas
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