| 单词 | clock hen |
| 释义 | > as lemmasclock hen clock hen n. now historical and rare a clucking hen; a broody or brooding hen; cf. clocking adj.1In quot. 1535 used as a name for the Pleiades, a cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus; cf. hen and chickens n. 1. [Compare West Frisian klokhin, Dutch klokhen brood hen, name for the Pleiades (2nd half of the 16th cent. as †klockhinne).] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > hen > brooding clock hen1535 cluck hen1598 clocking1721 broody1904 the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > hen > sound made by > hen that makes clock hen1535 cluck hen1598 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job ix. A (note) Some call these seuen starres, the clock henne with hir chekens. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie clxxx. 1121 God..vpbraideth vs, yt he hath played ye clockhen towardes vs, and wee could not abide it. 1651 J. Ellistone tr. J. Böhme Signatura Rerum xvi. 201 O Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thy Children together, as a clock-hen gathereth her Chickens under her wings, and thou wouldst not. 2011 F. N. Hepper Life on Lake District Smallholding ix. 72 In the Cumbrian dialect such birds were known as ‘clock hens,’ presumably from their habit of cluck, clucking. < as lemmas |
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