silflayとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈsɪlf.leɪ/

名詞

silflay (uncountable)

1. (of rabbits) The act of eating outdoors.
   • 1981, Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall, The Trials of Worzel Gummidge, Puffin, →ISBN, page 171:

     Rabbits were out on silflay, and fat spiders hung motionless in the centre of damp webs.

   • 1984, Town and Country Planning, volume 53, number 10, page 287:

     Picnickers, golden eagles and bunnies sunning themselves on silflay will therefore be glad that FoE has drawn up a set of guidelines for local authorities and a code of conduct for ATB users.

   • 2003, Stephen King, The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger, 2nd edition, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 142:

     Three rabbits came, and once they were at silflay the gunslinger pulled leather. He took them down, skinned them, gutted them, and brought them back to the camp.

   • 2011, Rupert Schmitt, The Mad Professor, Bloomington: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 485:

     If I’m a rabbit I jump at sounds. I live in a burrow of motors. I want to jump, but cannot. The ceiling is too low in this burrow. Only rarely can I go out to silflay. I am aware of the coming and going of the sun because of a distant glow. I can barely perceive the white incandescence.