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单词 down breed
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Down breed
5. Usually with capital initial. Any of various breeds of sheep originally raised for both meat and wool on the Downs of southern England (see sense 2), or developed from them by cross-breeding; (also) a sheep of such a breed. Chiefly attributive as Down breed, Down sheep, etc., or with qualifying word, as Dorset Down, Hampshire Down, Oxford Down. See also Southdown n.
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1721 R. Bradley Gen. Treat Husbandry & Gardening I. 19 Some, indeed, tell us that the agreeable flavour of the Down Mutton is owing to the wild Thyme, which those Creatures eat in great quantity on those high Lands, but I am of the Opinion that this is a Mistake.
1822 R. W. Dickson Compl. Syst. Improved Live Stock & Cattle Managem. I. 378/1 The most noted variety is that of Mr. Ellman, of Glynd, in Sussex, who is supposed to have first enlarged the down breed by the aid of polled or natt Berkshire tups.
1831 Lincoln Herald 21 Oct. 1/1 Prime young Downs sell at 4s. to 5s.
1842 Penny Cycl. XXIII. 345/2 A heavier sort of sheep, a cross between the Somerset and the Down.
1878 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Ups & Downs xx. 245 Fancy three hundred acres in Oxfordshire, with a score or two of bullocks, and twice as many black-faced Down sheep.
1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 259/1 Dorset Down, one of the Down breed sheep with fine close wool which is used largely for Cheviot quality woollens and for hosiery yarns.
1989 S. Hall & J. Clutton-Brock 200 Years Brit. Farm Livestock i. 14 The longwools were soon superseded by the Down breeds.
2014 B. Smith Spinner's Bk. Fleece vi. 151 In addition to true Downs (Suffolk, Southdown, Oxford, Hampshire, Dorset Down, and Shropshire, for instance), I include in this chapter breeds with wool that looks and acts like that of the true Down breeds.
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