strafe, apiece, water cannon, anti-nuclear protesters

中國的「一帶一路」遭遇普丁的掃射



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strafe (strāf)
To attack of machine-gun or cannon fire from a low-flying aircraft.

[From German (Gott) strafe (England), (God) punish (England), a common World War I slogan, from strafen, to punish, from Middle High German strāfen, to contest, admonish.]

strafer 

straf'er 

n.

apiece
adv.
To or for each one; each: There is enough bread for everyone to have two slices apiece.

[Middle English a pece : a, a; see a² + pece, piece; see piece.]

cannon[can・non]

• 発音記号[kǽnən]
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[名]（複 〜s, ((集合的))〜）

1 （射角45度以下の）カノン砲；（一般に）大砲；（軍用機の）機関砲；((米俗))ピストル, はじき.

2 ((英))《機械》＝quill[名]5.

3 《甲胄》筒形の腕当て.

4 《馬術》水勒太馬銜(すいろくふとばみ)：中空で太い馬銜(はみ).

5 （鐘の）つり手.

6 《動物》＝cannon bone.

7 ((英))《ビリヤード》キャノン（((米))carom）：手玉を続けて2つの的玉に当てること.

8 ((米俗))すり.

━━[動](自)

1 ((英))（…に）衝突する, ぶつかる((against, into, with ...)).

2 大砲を打つ, 砲撃する.

3 ((英))《ビリヤード》キャノンを突く.

━━(他)

1 …を砲撃する.

2 ((英))《ビリヤード》〈手玉を〉2つの的玉に当てる.

3 ((米俗))…を盗む, かっぱらう.

［中フランス語←ギリシャ語kánna（葦(あし)）. これから, 「まっすぐな中空の管」→「大砲」. △CANE, CANON］