单词 | cow-pen |
释义 | cow-penn. A pen or enclosure for cows. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > housing or sheltering of cattle > cattle pen or shelter wormstall1601 cow-pen1635 bull-pen1809 cattle-pen1837 bawn1850 1635 Althorp MS in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons p. lxxii To 11 women 2 days a peece weeding the oates in the cowpenns. 1694 Philos. Trans. 1693 (Royal Soc.) 17 987 As soon as they were set forth of the Cow-pens, they would fall a feeding. 1874 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. X. xxii. 462 Driven from time to time into cowpens. Compounds cowpen-bird n. U.S. = cow-bird n. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Icteridae > [noun] > genus Molothrus (cow-bird) cowpen-bird1731 cattle-bird1837 cow-birda1839 cow bunting1839 cow-troopial1839 cow blackbird1844 1731 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina (1754) I. 34 Passer fuscus. The Cowpen Bird... They delight much to feed in the Pens of Cattle, which has given them their name... They inhabit Virginia and Carolina. 1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina (1792) 289 Sturnus stercorarius: the cowpen bird. 1826 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1138 There is a bird in the United States of America, called ‘Cowpen’, emberiza pecoris, by Wilson. 1887 C. C. Abbott Waste-land Wanderings ii. 55 The cowpen-bird, which is never mated, and for several months in the year deposits fertile eggs in the nests of other birds. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019). cow-penv. To pen cows upon (a piece of ground). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [verb (transitive)] > pen cattle on ground cow-pen1694 impound1877 1694 Philos. Trans. 1693 (Royal Soc.) 17 979 A fresh piece of Ground..will not bear Tobacco past two or three Years, unless Cow-pen'd; for they Manure their Ground by keeping their Cattle..within Hurdles, which they remove when they have sufficiently dung'd one spot. 1786 G. Washington Diary (1925) III. 131 [I] plowed a poor ½ acre to Cowpen on. 1786 G. Washington Diary (1925) III. 183 About an acre was sown in my meadow, part of which had been cowpened. 1832 R. Baird View Valley of Mississippi xxiv. 286 It grows well on marsh..and even pine barrens, when they are well trodden or cowpenned, as it is termed. 1871–3 Texas Almanac 12 Cow-penning, in successive lots..is a good plan for manuring. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1635v.1694 |
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