English Dictionary

mew

/mjuː/

noun

(obsolete) A prison, or other place of confinement. / (obsolete) A hiding place; a secret store or den. / (obsolete) A breeding-cage for birds. / (falconry) A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.

He was thrown into the mew.

意味（1）

(obsolete) A prison, or other place of confinement.

意味（2）

(obsolete) A hiding place; a secret store or den.

Ne toung did tell, ne hand these handled not, / But safe I haue them kept in secret mew, / From heauens sight, and powre of all which them pursew.

意味（3）

(obsolete) A breeding-cage for birds.

意味（4）

(falconry) A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.

A horse in a stable that never travels, a hawk in a mew that seldom flies, are both subject to diseases; which, left unto themselves, are most free from any such encumbrances.

意味（5）

(falconry, in the plural) A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept.