Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Numbering twelve times twenty, or two hundred and forty; as, twelve-score seamen.
- n. Twelve-score yards, a common length for a shot in archery, and hence often alluded to formerly in measurement.
Wiktionary
- n. archaic Two hundred and forty.
GNU Webster's 1913
- Twelve times twenty; two hundred and forty.
Etymologies
- twelve + score (Wiktionary)
Examples
“You have perhaps twelvescore armsmen," Jecks pointed out.”
“One of the old buccaneer writers of a century later says: ` ` The Spaniards affirm to this day that he took at that time twelvescore tons of plate and sixteen bowls of coined money a man (his number being then forty-five men in all), insomuch that they were forced to heave much of it overboard, because his ship could not carry it all. '”
“The winners then saluted the King and Queen, and withdrew for a space to rest and renew their bow-strings for the keenest contest of all; while the lists were cleared and a new target -- the open one -- was set up at twelvescore paces.”
“One of the old buccaneer writers of a century later says: "The Spaniards affirm to this day that he took at that time twelvescore tons of plate and sixteen bowls of coined money a man (his number being then forty-five men in all), insomuch that they were forced to heave much of it overboard, because his ship could not carry it all.”
“Only twelvescore pounds, my lord, when I be in wrestling trim.”
“Curwen, Knight, in Henry the Eight's time, an excelent archer at twelvescore merks; and went up with his men to shoote with that reknowned King at the dissolution of abbeys: and the King says to him, Curwen, why doth thee begg none of these Abbeys?”
“‘Only twelvescore pounds, my lord, when I be in wrestling trim.”
“We have somewhere over twelvescore lancers and others with us. ”
“Spaniards affirm to this day that he took at that time twelvescore tons of plate and sixteen bowls of coined money a man (his number being then forty-five men in all), insomuch that they were forced to heave much of it overboard, because his ship could not carry it all. ”
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