English Dictionary

stale

IPA（発音記号）

/steɪl/

名詞

廃用

(falconry, hunting, obsolete) A live bird to lure birds of prey or others of its kind into a trap. / (obsolete) Any lure, particularly in reference to people used as live bait.

日本語の意味

（鷹狩り・狩猟での旧用法）おとりとして使用される生きた鳥。つまり、猛禽類や同種の鳥を罠に誘い込むための餌鳥として使われた。 / （時代遅れの用法）生きたおとり、特に人間が生きた餌として利用された例を指す。

The falconer used a stale to lure migrating hawks into the net.

鷹匠は渡りの鷹を網におびき寄せるために生きた囮の鳥を使った。

意味（1）

(falconry, hunting, obsolete) A live bird to lure birds of prey or others of its kind into a trap.

Like vnto the fowlers, that by their stales draw other birdes into their nets.

意味（2）

(obsolete) Any lure, particularly in reference to people used as live bait.

She ran in all the hast Vnbrased and vnlast... It was a stale to take the deuyll in a brake.

意味（3）

(crime, obsolete) An accomplice of a thief or criminal acting as bait.

Their mynisters, be false bretherne or false sustern, stales of the deuyll.

意味（4）

(obsolete) a partner whose beloved abandons or torments him in favor of another.

I perceiue Lucilla (sayd he) that I was made thy stale, and Philautus thy laughinge stocke.

意味（5）

(obsolete) A patsy, a pawn, someone used under some false pretext to forward another's (usu. sinister) designs; a stalking horse.

That of the two nominated, one should be an unfit Man, and as it were a Stale, to bring the Office to the other.

意味（6）

(crime, obsolete) A prostitute of the lowest sort; any wanton woman.

Spare not to tell him, that he hath wronged his honor in marrying the renowned Claudio...to a contaminated stale.

意味（7）

(hunting, obsolete) Any decoy, either stuffed or manufactured.

'Tis the living bird that makes the best stale to draw others into the net.

stales （ plural ）