单词 | ware holes |
释义 | > as lemmasware holes b. In hunting and in cries to animals, as ware hawk (figurative: cf. hawk n.1 3), ware horse, etc. Now chiefly in ware wheat (= don't ride over it), ware holes, ware wire. Sometimes pronounced /wɔː(r)/.Similarly, on the Trent, ware ager, a warning to boats to beware of the tidal wave. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > signals > call or signal [verb (transitive)] > shout at warea1529 tally-ho1812 soho1834 yoicks1840 a1529 Skelton (title) Ware the Hauke. 1590 T. Cokayne Treat. Hunting C 4 b Take him vp in a line, and beating him, say, awe, ware that. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. viii. 4 The bull has the game, ware hornes ho? View more context for this quotation 1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes v. v. 57 in Wks. II See! the whole Couy is scatter'd, 'Ware, 'ware the Hawkes. I loue to see him flye. 1673 S'too him Bayes 31 But now ware hawk! 1677 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 2) i. 80 The first Ceremony when the Hunts-men come in to the Death of a Deer, is to cry Ware Haunch, that the Hounds may not break into the Deer. 1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy v. i. 62 Mon. Your Goodness, Madam, is —— Flip. [Aside to Moneytrap.] War Horse, No fine Speeches, you'll spoil all. 1793 ‘P. Pindar’ Ode i, in Poet. Epist. to Pope 25 'Ware lark,' the Sportsman to his pointer cries; Designing him for partridge—nobler game. 1814 Sporting Mag. 44 193 Ware chase! where such daring unpardonable crime has been committed. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 470 Warr, an abbreviation probably of beware—‘Warr, horse’—a caution to a hound in danger of being trodden on. ‘Warr, sheep’—warns him from agression. 1828 Sporting Mag. N.S. XXI. 187 I never heard an harangue upon ‘ware wheat’ given in a more gentlemanlike way. 1864 E. Mayhew Illustr. Horse Managem. 527 However, walk down the gangway of the two-year old stalls in any trainer's stable, and ‘'ware horse,’ ‘'ware heels,’ is frequently shouted out. 1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert v. 48 We have four or five miles to do yet—and a nice bit of open grass country before us—but 'ware holes! < as lemmas |
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