单词 | havier |
释义 | haviern. A gelded fallow deer. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Cervus > cervus dama (fallow deer) > male bucka1000 havier1676 1676 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 33 The finest haver deere..that ever I saw. 1676 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 33 Lady Stanhope..to whom I sent the hanch of the haver. 1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) iv. xlii. 152 A Halfer..means a male Fallow-deer gelded..Those that pronounce half, hâfe, say hàver; and those that speak half with a open, say hauver: but many, through ignorance of the etymon, will call it havior, which is very absurd. 1803 Ann. Agric. 39 556. 1829 Sporting Mag. 23 369 It has been known for a havier to be hunted three times a season for ten years. 1850 Ld. Braybrooke in Notes & Queries 1st Ser. I. 230/1 The word Havior, by which all park-keepers denote an emasculated male deer..Never having seen the word written or printed, I am guided, in attempting to spell it, by the usual pronunciation. 1891 Field 7 Mar. 332/1 A poll havier has no antlers, nor even the stumps, because he was added to the list in his infancy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1676 |
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