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flesh

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flesh

IPA(Pronunciation)

/flɛʃ/

Verb

transitive obsolete

(transitive) To reward (a hound, bird of prey etc.) with flesh of the animal killed, to excite it for further hunting; to train (an animal) to have an appetite for flesh.

Japanese Meaning

（飼い犬、猛禽類などに対して）捕獲した獲物の肉を報酬として与え、狩猟への意欲を高める行為 / 動物に獲物の肉を与え、その肉への食欲を育成する、または訓練する行為

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Google Translation / DeepL Translation

狩りが成功した後、鷹匠は捕まえた鳩の肉を切り分けて、次の狩りに備えるために鷹たちに獲物の肉を与えた。

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Sense（1）

(transitive) To reward (a hound, bird of prey etc.) with flesh of the animal killed, to excite it for further hunting; to train (an animal) to have an appetite for flesh.

Before they had fleshed the hounds, however, he recollected himself […].

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Sense（2）

(transitive) To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.

Give me a clean sword and a clean foe to flesh it in.

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Sense（3）

(obsolete) To inure or habituate someone in or to a given practice.

And whosoever could now joyne us together, and eagerly flesh all our people to a common enterprise, we should make our ancient military name and chivalrous credit to flourish againe.

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Sense（4）

(transitive) To glut.

Sense（5）

(transitive) To put flesh on; to fatten.

Sense（6）

To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.

fleshes

（ present singular third-person ）

fleshing

（ participle present ）

fleshed

（ participle past ）

fleshed

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