| 单词 |
sorage |
| 释义 |
ˈsorage Obs. exc. arch. Also 5 sore aage, 7 soreage; 6– soarage. [a. OF. sorage (Godefroy; mod.F. saurage), f. sore sore a.2 + -age (in some instances taken as age n.).] The first year of a hawk. Also attrib.
a1400in Harting Perfect Bk. Keping of Sparhawkes (1886) Introd. p. ix, Carry your hauk much, especially in her sorage. 1486Bk. St. Albans a vij b, A Goshawke nor a tercell in thare sore aage haue nott thare mayles named. Ibid. b j b, That first yere is calde hir sore aage. 1575Turberv. Faulconrie 64 There are sundrie of them good in their soarage but beyng once mewed prove nothing worthe. 1620Quarles Feast of Wormes (1638) 4 Expect no lofty Hagard,..If in her downy Soreage, she but ruffe So strong a Dove, may it be thought enough. 1684R. H. Sch. of Recreat. 78 And as the Age of these Hawks is, so we name them, as, The first year a Soarage. 1688Holme Armoury ii. 236/2 A Soar Hawk..is called also a Sorage Hawk. [1852R. F. Burton Falconry Valley Indus iv. 41 note, It becomes..a ‘soar-hawk,’ or ‘soarage’ when it has begun to prey for itself.] |

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