| 单词 | hog yoke |
| 释义 | > as lemmashog yoke hog yoke n. (also hog's yoke) (a) a wooden frame placed around a hog's neck to prevent it pushing its way through hedges, fences, etc. (now rare); (b) (Nautical) a quadrant (quadrant n.1 7) (now historical). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of pigs > [noun] > pig-yoke hog yoke1573 pig yoke1845 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > quadrant, sextant, etc. quadrant?c1400 quadrate1551 sextant1628 sinical quadrant1669 bow1696 pig yoke1836 hog yoke1897 ham-bone1938 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 15v Hog yokes, & a twicher, & rings for a hog. 1613 A. Shirley Rel. Travels Persia 71 Hee should not dye; but goe, during his life, with a great yoke, like a Hogges-yoke, about his necke. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1708) 290 Hog-Yokes and Rings. a1852 F. M. Whitcher Widow Bedott Papers (1883) x. 35 I ain't so fond o' pork as to eat hog yokes. 1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous v. 107 The old green-crusted quadrant that they called the ‘hog-yoke’. 1929 F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 67 Hog yoke, the old fashioned wooden quadrant in American ships and Grand Bankers, so-called from its likeness to the wooden yoke put over hogs to prevent them breaking through fences. 2001 Florida Times-Union (Nexis) 30 Sept. e1 All of it happens in the living museum that John Rice Irwin built, tool by quilt by cross saw by hog yoke by smoke house and sheep pen. < as lemmas |
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