单词 | hop-dog |
释义 | hop-dogn. 1. A tool for drawing hop-poles out of the ground. Also a cutting tool used in hop-gardens. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > uprooting tool meak1478 pease-meak1583 grubber1598 grub-axe1611 dog1727 pea-make1794 hop-dog1796 eradicator1807 stub-dig1837 stub-hoe1858 grub-hoea1884 grub-hook1884 the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > hop-picker or -cutter hop-picker1875 hop-dog1880 1796 J. Boys Agric. Surv. Kent (1813) 56 A hop-dog, to wrench up the poles, costs 5s. 1880 C. M. Mason Forty Shires 397 The cutter with his ‘hop-dog’ (which has a hook on one side and a knife on the other), cuts the vine near the roots. 1914 E. Blunden Waggoner (1920) 50 Sharpened hopdog, at whose blow The stubborn cluster drops. 1914 E. Blunden Waggoner (1920) 70 Hopdog, long-handled curved knife for hop-gardens. 2. A green caterpillar which infests the hop-bine. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [noun] > larva > that eats or destroys plants leaf wormOE wortworma1382 cole-worm1468 cole-wort worm1552 devil's gold ring1552 canker-blossom1600 peach-worm1814 knife-worm1860 hop-dog1872 nettle grub1890 1872 C. M. Yonge P's & Q's iv. 30 The beautiful cocoon which the hopdog was spinning—a delicate apple-green fellow, with white tooth-brush tufts down his back, black velvet slashings..and a rose-coloured feather in his tail. 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. 1961 R. South Moths Brit. Isles I. 117 As it is, or was previous to the modern ‘washing’, common in hop gardens at picking time, it was christened the ‘hop dog’. 1968 P. Jennings Living Village 100 There are still people who use expressions such as..hot cat (hairy caterpillar), hop dog (green caterpillar). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1796 |
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