wolf's head

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. In mediaeval times, an outlaw; one who may be slain without judicial enquiry. UK,obsolete
    — “Bonny times,” he said, “I have lived to see, when a lad of Earl Oslac’s blood is sent out of the land, a beggar and a wolf’s head, for playing a boy’s trick or two, and upsetting a shaveling priest.”.

词形变化

wolf's heads plural

词源

Calque of Latin caput lupinum.
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