| 单词 | close-herd |
| 释义 | > as lemmasclose-herd close-herd v. originally U.S. (see quot. 1887); also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > herd > herd or drive together drive1540 bunch1828 close-herd1874 band1878 mill1901 1874 J. G. McCoy Hist. Sketches Cattle Trade 348 He outrides the country instead of close herding his stock. 1887 Scribner's Mag. Oct. 508/2 A friend..has heard a sheriff talk of ‘close-herding’ several prisoners in his charge. On the plains it means the difficult art of keeping cattle in a compact body, close together. 1923 ‘B. M. Bower’ Parowan Bonanza xxii. 264 He..told Tommy that he wouldn't be needed close herding any body. 1925 C. E. Mulford Cottonwood Gulch xii. 148 We've got to round-up, loose herd durin' the day, an' close herd nights. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Feb. 147/3 The commoners could only turn their stock out on the forest and could not close-herd them. < as lemmas |
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