| 单词 | welsh main |
| 释义 | > as lemmasWelsh main Welsh main n. now historical a tournament in which the loser in each round is eliminated (cf. main n.2 3); (occasionally) such a system forming the basis of a competition.Used originally and chiefly with reference to cockfighting tournaments. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting or baiting animals > fighting between animals > [noun] > cock-fighting > types of fight Welsh main1744 bye1754 stag-match1758 1744 Daily Advertiser 16 Jan. At the Three Cups Inn..will be fought for by way of Welch Main, a strong useful gelding. 1748 J. Cheny Hist. List Horse-matches 99 To be fought for at Mr. Parker's Pit..an hundred Pounds, by Chickens, a Welch Main. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ix, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 265 Laying schemes for massacring men on Palm Sunday, as if he were backing a Welsh main, where all must fight to death. 1833 Fraser's Mag. May 623/2 I guess they'll be fain, sir, When tithes and rents are gone, To fight a Welsh main, sir, O'Connor and O'Don. 1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (at cited word) There is also the term Welsh main, applied in a secondary sense to voting: voting until two only are left in, and then for those two alone. 1989 R. J. Cutter Brush & Spur iii. 85 Either the fight was a Welsh Main or else the one bird fought all comers one after another, though the second alternative scarcely seems possible. < as lemmas |
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