单词 | gozzard |
释义 | gozzardn. = gooseherd n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > keeper of poultry > keeper of geese gooseherd14.. gozzard14.. gissard1584 goose-girl1826 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 566/34 Aucarius, a gosherde. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 204/1 Gosherde, aucarius, aucaria. 1771 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1769 (1790) 10 A person called a Gozzard attends the flock and twice a day drives the whole flock to water. 1774 D. Barrington in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 287 The shepherd..knows each of them, and can swear to them, if they are lost; as can the Lincolnshire gosherd to each goose. 1804 T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds II. 299 This business requires the attendance of the Gozzard (Goose-herd) a month at least. 1893 S. Baring-Gould Cheap Jack Zita II. xvi. 48 Why should gaulters and bankers only have double pay? Why not molers and gozzards also? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.14.. |
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