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单词 dog-whipper
释义 dog-whipper
1. An official formerly employed to whip dogs out of a church or chapel. Locally retained, as an appellation of a sexton or beadle.
1592Nashe P. Penilesse Wks. (1883–4) 127 It were verie good the dogwhipper in Paules would haue a care of this.1721Audit-Bk. Christ's Coll. in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) III. 520 Paid Salmon the Dogwhipper a year ending at Mich. last 1. 0. 0.1869Lonsdale Gloss., Dog-whipper, a church beadle.1887Kentish Gloss., Dog-whipper, the beadle of a church, whose duty it was, in former days, to whip the dogs out of church.1888in Sheffield Gloss.
2. Humorously applied to a university proctor in allusion to his ‘bull-dogs’.
1789J. Wolcott (P. Pindar) Subj. for Paint. Wks. 1812 II. 204 Attended by each Dog-whipper called Proctor.
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