| 单词 |
intermewer |
| 释义 |
intermewer Falconry. ? Obs.|ɪntəˈmjuːə(r)| Also 6–7 entermewer, 7 erron. intermure. [f. as prec. + -er.] A hawk of the second year, after her first ‘mewing’ or moulting, and before she has the full third year's coat.
1575Turberv. Faulconrie 32 They are called Enter⁓mewers or hawkes of the first cote that is from the middle of May till..December. Those hawkes are called Enter⁓mewers for that they cast the old and have new feathers and they prove very good and hardie hawkes. 1680Lond. Gaz. No. 1491/4 A Tercel Gentle an Intermewer, lost a Month since in Staffordshire. a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts 118. 1727 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Hawk, The second [year] an Intermewer, the third a white Hawk. fig.a1613Overbury A Wife (1638) 117 The fourth and fift, she's an intermewer, preies for herselfe, and ruffles all she reaches. |

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