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Show f CLING T0 OLD "DESIGNATIONS Sporting Language That Was Used In the Middle Ages la Still Good Form Today. Much of the language used tn various vari-ous sport a Is our Inheritance from the middle ages. Different kinds of beasts when In companies were distinguished by their own particular epithet, which was supposed to be in some manner descriptive of the habits of the animals. ani-mals. To use the wrong form of these words subjected the would be sportsman sports-man to ridicule. Many of these terms have passed away, but some of them are still retained. re-tained. This list from the. middle ages Is still good usage today. A "pride of lions," a "lope" of leopards, it "herd" of hnrta and of all sorta of deer; a "bevy" of roses, a "sloth" of bears, a "singular" of boars, a "sounder" of wild swine, a "route" of wolves, a "harms" of horses, a "ray" of colls, a "stud" of mares, a "pace" of asses, a "barren" of mules, a "team" of oxen, a "drove" of kin, a "flock" of sheep, a "trite" of gnats, a "skulk" of foxes, a "down" of hares, a "next" of rabbits, rab-bits, a "clowder" of cats, a "shrewdness" "shrewd-ness" of s and a "labor" of moles. Also of animals when they retired to rest, a hart was said to be "harbored," "har-bored," a roebuck "bedded," a hart "formed." a rabbit "set." Two greyhounds grey-hounds were called a "brace," but two harriers were called a "couple." There was also a "mute" of hounds for a number, a "kennel" of raches, a "litter" "lit-ter" of whelps and a "cowardice" of curs. This kind of descriptive phraseology was not confined to birds and beasts, but was extended to the human sp-cles sp-cles and the various propensities, natures na-tures and callings. |
