单词 | horsemeat |
释义 | horsemeatn. 1. Food or provender for horses. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > fodder for horses horsemeat1404 horse-bread1467 horse-loafc1468 bayard's bunc1520 garbage1526 bait1570 rack-meat1607 greaves1614 ray1656 gram1702 oat hay1843 oaten hay1891 1404 Durham MS. Sacr. Roll j sythe pro horsmet falcand. 1475 Bk. Noblesse 30 Finding bothe horsmete and mannys~mete to youre soudeours riding be the contre. 1528 Sir B. Tuke in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. I. 286 I sent a phisician..promysing hym a mark by day, horsmete, and mans mete. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 256 Oats, and all mixed Corns called Horse-meat, are Harvested somtimes with two reaping hooks. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. ii. ii. 140 The Sum due for Horse-meat was twelve Shillings. View more context for this quotation 2. = horseflesh n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > flesh of other animals > [noun] > horse horseflesh?1533 horsemeat1853 chevaline1868 1853 S. N. Carvalho Jrnl. 1 Feb. in J. Bigelow Mem. J. C. Fremont (1856) xvii. 441 He sent a Mexican..with cooked horsemeat. 1868 All Year Round 22 Feb. 252/2 Horse-meat is a common..article of food. 1870 Food Jrnl. Dec. 620 The almost impossibility of obtaining beef and mutton naturally forced the use of horsemeat upon the people. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 23 Dec. 10/1 Every day the purveyors and the consumers of horsemeat increase in numbers. 1910 Daily Chron. 14 Jan. 1/5 The price of horse meat was 3½d. a lb. 1972 T. P. McMahon Issue of Bishop's Blood (1973) xi. 171 A very suave-type fellow then came to Hymie with a tale about..buying frozen horse meat to meet the chain's need for huge quantities of frozen beef. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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