单词 | gapper |
释义 | gappern. 1. a. Horticulture. A plant suitable for filling a gap between other plants. Also: a device for automatically regulating the space between crops during planting. ΚΠ 1929 Nurseryman & Seedsman 9 May 19/2 (advt.) Quicks! Quicks!! Quicks!!.. Extra strong gappers, 7s 6d. 100. 1945 Times 17 Sept. 6/7 Labour on hoeing has been cut down and could be saved further by the use of mechanical gappers and cross blocking with row-crop equipment to keep hand work at a minimum. 1988 J. A. R. Lockhart & A. J. L. Wiseman Introd. Crop Husbandry (ed. 6) iv. 126/1 Mechanical singling, with an electronically-automated gapper, using a detector probe to spray out unwanted plants, is being looked at again. b. Baseball. A ball hit into a space between outfielders. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > batting > types of hit skyscraper1842 single1851 grass trimmer1867 safe hit1867 roller1871 sacrifice1880 triple1880 two-bagger1880 sacrifice hit1881 pop-up1882 pop fly1884 fungo1887 bunt1889 safety1895 bunting1896 drive1896 hit and run1899 pinch hit1905 Texas leaguer1905 squeeze1908 hopper1914 scratch hit1917 squib1929 line-drive1931 nubber1937 lay-in1951 squeeze bunt1952 comebacker1954 moon shot1961 gapper1970 sacrifice fly1970 sacrifice bunt1974 1970 Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pa.) 13 Aug. 7/8 Osler lined a gapper into right-center that chased home two runs. 1982 Daily Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pa.) 3 June 19 a/2 In the fifth, with Bob Derner on via a walk, he smacked a gapper for an RBI double. 2005 M. Shannon Coming back to Baseball v. 87 John Stultz hit a gapper into right-center to drive in two runs. 2. A person who takes a break from his or her career. Now usually (British): a student taking a gap year. ΚΠ 1992 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 10 Jan. An economics professor..who first worked with Jacobsen when they were graduate students at Stanford University, said employers think ‘gappers’ are bad investments. 1994 Times 13 June 38/1 Voluntary work overseas is many people's ideal... Among the organisations which cater specifically for ‘gappers’ are Project Trust and GAP (Gap Activity Projects). 2003 J. Butcher Moralisation of Tourism i. 15 Travel visas for Australia—a favourite for gappers—have more than doubled in the last five years. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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