英语词汇“jay、hawker”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

jay-hawker

释义

ˈjay-ˌhawker U.S.
A name given to members of the bands who carried on irregular warfare in and around eastern Kansas, in the free soil conflict, and the early part of the American civil war, and who combined pillage with guerilla fighting: hence, generally, a raiding guerilla or irregular soldier.
1865Pall Mall G. No. 143. 5/1 Jay-hawkers, cut-throats, and thieves.1867A. D. Richardson Beyond the Mississippi x. 125 Found all the settlers justifying the ‘Jay-hawkers’, a name universally applied to Montgomery's men, from the celerity of their movements and their habit of suddenly pouncing upon an enemy.1888St. Louis Globe Democrat 20 Jan. (Farmer Americanisms), He was connected with what is known as the Jayhawker war that raged on the borders of Kansas about twenty-five years since.1900R. Kipling in Times 15 Mar. 8/1 Suppose that you who read these lines had been out with Rimington's jay-hawkers or somebody else's fly-by-nights, riding hard and sleeping light for weeks.

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