单词 | gooseherd |
释义 | gooseherdn. One who tends a flock of geese. 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. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) iii. ii. ii. 15 Their geese are driuen to the field like heards of cattell by a goose heard. 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. 1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 314 A gooseherd, it is said, can distinguish every goose in the flock by the tones of its voice. 1892 A. C. Swinburne Stud. Prose & Poetry (1894) 232 The democratic theatricals of Gallican geese and gooseherds. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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