单词 | war-belt |
释义 | > as lemmaswar-belt war-belt n. ΚΠ 1754 P. Wraxall Abridgem. Indian Affairs (1915) 242 He calls upon them now to..join us in our Defence & Revenge & presents the Large War Belt to them. 1798 W. S. Landor Gebir vii. 28 Whirling headlong in his war-belts fold. 1847 C. Lanman Summer in Wilderness 17 Captain James Clarke,..when about to be murdered by a council of Indians.., threw the war-belt in the midst of the savages, with a defying shout. 1965 Canad. Hist. Rev. June 109 In December [1775] the Iroquois delegation told Philip Schuyler that Johnson after offering them a war belt and hatchet had invited them to ‘feast on a Bostonian and drink his blood’. < as lemmas |
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