| 单词 | counting-out pen |
| 释义 | > as lemmascounting-out pen 5. transitive and intransitive. Australian and New Zealand. To count the number of sheep as they leave the shearing-shed. So counting-out pen. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > pens used before or after shearing catching pen1826 sweating-house1832 counting-out pen1874 sweating pen1882 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > shear sheep [verb (transitive)] > count sheared sheep to count out1874 1874 J. A. H. Caird Notes on Sheepfarming in N.Z. iii. 23 A small door for each shearer to put his shorn sheep out of the shed, and into the counting out pens. 1891 R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. xxix. 381 [After being shorn] the sheep are inspected by the manager in charge before they are counted out and allowed to mix with the general flock. 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. May 463/2 It is often an advantage to clear the counting-out pens as frequently as possible during shearing or crutching. < as lemmas |
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