英语词汇“touch-no-walls”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

touch-no-walls n. (also touch-no-wall) Real Tennis (now rare, chiefly historical) a handicap imposed on the stronger player in a match by which he or she must ensure the ball when played does not hit any of the walls of the court before its second bounce.

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1777 T. Swift Gamblers i. 221 Now sounds the Grill; 'tis Setts, and Touch-no-wall, And Chaces echo thro' the lattic'd Hall.

1878 J. Marshall Ann. Tennis 160 Touch-no-walls, or All-the-walls: a point of cramped-odds, by which the giver of the odds loses a stroke whenever a ball, returned by him, touches a wall or a gallery-post, or enters an opening, before falling on the floor.

1903 E. Miles Racquets, Tennis & Squash xxxii. 220 ‘Touch-no-walls’ is the severest of the Handicaps.

2001 P. Seddon Tennis's Strangest Matches 16 The Comte de Reignac..agreed to receive a handicap peculiar to Real Tennis called ‘touch no walls’.

单词	touch-no-walls
释义	> as lemmas touch-no-walls touch-no-walls n. (also touch-no-wall) Real Tennis (now rare, chiefly historical) a handicap imposed on the stronger player in a match by which he or she must ensure the ball when played does not hit any of the walls of the court before its second bounce. ΚΠ 1777 T. Swift Gamblers i. 221 Now sounds the Grill; 'tis Setts, and Touch-no-wall, And Chaces echo thro' the lattic'd Hall. 1878 J. Marshall Ann. Tennis 160 Touch-no-walls, or All-the-walls: a point of cramped-odds, by which the giver of the odds loses a stroke whenever a ball, returned by him, touches a wall or a gallery-post, or enters an opening, before falling on the floor. 1903 E. Miles Racquets, Tennis & Squash xxxii. 220 ‘Touch-no-walls’ is the severest of the Handicaps. 2001 P. Seddon Tennis's Strangest Matches 16 The Comte de Reignac..agreed to receive a handicap peculiar to Real Tennis called ‘touch no walls’. extracted from touchv. < as lemmas
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