单词 | butt practice |
释义 | > as lemmasbutt practice a. General attributive, as butt bow, butt field, butt mark, butt practice, butt shooting, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [noun] > type of bow butt bow1693 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love v. v. sig. Lv Mer. Those Nymphes would be tam'd a little indeed, but I feare thou hast not Arrowes for the purpose. Cup. O yes, here be of all sorts, Flightes, Rouers, and Butshafts. 1632 R. Harris Way to True Happinesse xxii. 125 He was no way to be taxed as indiscreet, rash, sinfull, & yet he was set as a Butt-marke for every one to aym at. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xxiii. 107 He..shot at but-marks [Fr. tiroit à la butte]. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. li. 415 The Butt and Rover-bows [Fr. les arcs]. 1840 L. S. Costello Summer amongst Bocages & Vines II. xiii. 261 He..left..pierced to the heart with the blind bow-boy's butt-shaft. 1874 T. Mooney Fifteen Cardinal Princ. Democracy 29 To perfect themselves in military knowledge, by butt practice with the best rifle, artillery practice in the field, and with explosives. 1878 M. Thompson Witchery of Archery xi. 140 The great butt-fields made for public shooting were gradually abandoned and dismantled. 1939 P. Gordon New Archery ii. v. 48 The essential difference between short-range target shooting..and butt shooting is that in the latter form the mark is a small central disc, called the ‘prick’. 2000 Jrnl. Soc. Archer-Antiquaries 43 73/2 Two pairs of targets were erected for point blank butt shooting, two pairs at one hundred yards distance and one as an elevated target. < as lemmas |
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