| 单词 |
rocketer |
| 释义 |
rocketer|ˈrɒkɪtə(r)|
Also 9 rocketter.
[f. rocket v. 2 b + -er.]
a. A game-bird that ‘rockets’.
1863‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage (1870) 93 Isn't it beautiful to see Sabretasche knock down the rocketers? 188319th Cent. Dec. 1090 The ‘rocketer’, which I may at once define as a bird flying fast and high in the air towards the shooter.
†b. Cricket. = skyer. Obs.
1886Cricket 25 Feb. 18/1 A good man..is the man to go for a ‘pocketer’ [sic] between the wickets. Ibid. 25 Mar. 35/2 In my last letter of course ‘Pocketer’ ought to read ‘Rocketer’. 1887F. Gale Game of Cricket iv. 70 He hit [the ball] too quick, and instead of going out of the field, as it might have done, it went up a tremendous rocketer. 1900Badminton Mag. Oct. 380 The great smiter..hit a ball very high straight to the young blacksmith... But for some reason—whether he was thinking too much of the style of the thing, or was unused to rocketers—..the ball fell with a hollow clank on the top of his head. |
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