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单词 grazier
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graziern.

/ˈɡreɪʒ(ɪ)ə/
Forms: 1500s–1700s grasier, (1500s grasior, grasyar, grazyer, 1500s–1600s grasyer), 1600s– grazier.
Etymology: < gras, grass n.1: see -ier suffix. Quots. 1580 at sense 2a, 1611 at sense 2a seem to indicate that the word became more or less identified with the 16–17th cent. French graissier ( < graisse fat, grease n.). Compare graze v.3
1. Used to render medieval Latin viridarius (verderer n.2).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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