英语词汇“cock、fight”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

cock-fight

释义

cock-fight|ˈkɒkfaɪt|
1. A fight between cocks; spec. a match in which cocks, usually armed with long steel spurs, are set to fight each other in a place called a ‘cock-pit’.
1565–6Stat. Hartlebury, Worc. in N. Carlisle Endowed Gram. Sch. II. 759 The said Schoolmaster shall..have use and take the profits of all such cock-fights and potations as are commonly used in Schools.1581Mulcaster Positions xviii. (1887) 78 In cokfights and quailefightes.a1602W. Perkins Cases Consc. (1619) 346 The bayting of the Beare, and Cock⁓fights are no meete recreations.1748Wesley Wks. (1872) II. 92 There was to begin in an hour's time a famous cockfight.1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. (1858) 49 The school, like almost all the other grammar-schools of the period [1815] in Scotland, had its yearly cock-fight.
2. transf. A fighting match.
1494Fabyan vii. ccxxvii. 256 Shortly after skyrmysshes & cocke fyghtes began atwene y⊇ sayd .ii. prynces.1843Carlyle Past & Pr. ii. xv. 96 After that sinful chivalry cockfight of theirs!

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