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单词 bull's head
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bull's head
e. bull's head (Sc.): ‘a signal of condemnation, and prelude of immediate execution, said to have been anciently used in Scotland’ (Jamieson).
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bull's head1565
1565 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1728) 17 (Jam.) The chancellor presentit the bullis head befoir the earle of Douglas.
a1649 [see sense 1a].
1802 J. Leyden Cout of Keeldar in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border II. 365 If the bull's ill omened head Appear to grace the feast, Your whingers..Plunge in each neighbour's breast.
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