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单词 grass horse
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grass horse
grass horse n. Obsolete a horse kept at pasture; (hence) a horse fed exclusively on grass.
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grass horse1575
boarder1806
livery1896
1575 in 6th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS: Pt. I (1877) App. 658/1 in Parl. Papers (C. 1745) XLVII. 1 Item for girss to the girss horss 2s.
?a1649 R. Boyle Acct. Philaretus in R. Boyle by Himself & Friends (1994) 17 When in Sommer we take up our Grasse-horses into the Stable & give them store of oates; 'tis a signe that we meane to travell them.
1778 G. White Jrnl. 20 June (1970) xi. 152 His dung was harder & dryer than what usually fall from grass-horses.
1868 Contemp. Rev. May 91 It would be the advantage of England to throw up their husbandry, and to make no use of their lands but for grass horses, milch cows, gardens, and orchards.
1920 D. Lange Threat of Sitting Bull ii. 26 She is white, and she is a grain horse. We take nothing but bays, and blacks or very dark grays. No whites or calicoes; and they must all be grass horses.
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