单词 | grazier |
释义 | graziern.ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > forester > officer in charge of forest woodwardc1050 forester1297 ranger1327 walker1482 keeper1488 wood-master15.. grazierc1503 wood-reeve1579 woodman1594 Warden of the Forest1598 rider1647 conservator1733 woodwarden1748 wood-forester1865 c1503 tr. Charter of London in R. Arnold Chron. f. lxxx/1 To theis twoo swanmotis shall com to gedurs our foresters grasyers and woodwalkers. 2. a. One who grazes or feeds cattle for the market. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > pasturing > pasturer pasturer?c1450 grazier?1523 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > action or occupation of pasturing > person pasturer?c1450 grazier?1523 ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxi Thou grasyer that hath many shepe in thy pastures. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 52 They that are grasiers, vse the hole herbe in the stede of grasse and hay. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Vn Graissier, a grasier. 1606 T. Dekker Seuen Deadly Sinnes London ii. sig. C3 Marching not like a plodding Grasyer with his Droues before him, but like a Citty-Captayne. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Graissier,..a Grasier, or fattener of cattell. a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) ii. xxvi. 71 He brought them up..to be Grasiers, as we call them, to breed Cattell, Sheep, Oxen, Camels, Goats, and the like. 1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Seneca's Morals: Of Benefits xii. 87 A Grasier fats his Cattel, to bring them to a better Market. 1709 J. Swift Baucis & Philemon 7 Presently he feels His Graziers Coat fall down his Heels. 1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 380 Graziers, fatters of cattle; whether their food be grass, turneps, or oil-cake. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxxv. 338 Broad-brimmed white hat, such as a wealthy grazier might wear. 1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) II. i. i. 3 The savage..chooses to be a grazier rather than to till the ground. b. Proverbial and allusive uses. ΚΠ c1547 Vox Populi ii, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 401 Grasyers and regraters, Withe to many shepemasters, That of erable grounde make pastures, Are thei that be these wasters. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. E2 Insaciable cormorants, greedie grasiers..who hauing raked togither infinite pasture, feed all themselues, and will not sell for anie reasonable gaine. 1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 134 ‘To life like a grazier’ or to turn arable land into pasture continued to be a reproach cast upon some of the great English land owners at so late a period as the 16th century. 3. A grazing animal. U.S. ΚΠ 1852 Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. 3 138 They [sc. Durham heifers] are good graziers and winter well. Derivatives ˈgrazierly adj. pertaining to or like that of a grazier.There is no evidence of continuity of use between the examples given here. ΚΠ 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe Ep. Ded. sig. A3 Thou..spendest more..then in a whole yeare thou gettest by some grasierly gentilitie thou followest. 1822 R. Heber in Whole Wks. Jeremy Taylor I. p. cxi In a respectable grazierly style, on horseback, and in a white coat. ˈgrazierdom n. the realm or world of graziers.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1828 T. Carlyle Burns in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 301 Do battle against the intrusions of Grocerdom and Grazierdom. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1503 |
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