α. see horse n. and collar n.
β. late Middle English horsys colere, 1700s– horse's collar.
单词 | horse-collar |
释义 | horse-collarn.α. see horse n. and collar n. β. late Middle English horsys colere, 1700s– horse's collar. The collar of a horse. to grin through a horse-collar: see quot. 1801. Hence allusively, as in quot. 1878. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > collar barghama1300 hambargh13.. oxbowa1325 collarc1440 horse-collarc1440 neck-collar1549 brecham?1553 gorget1629 check-collar1875 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 247/2 Horsys colere, eph(ipp)ium, columbar. 1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 101 Hors-colers, l. vij. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Meléna A horse collar. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iv. iii. §31 The Grinning Match is performed by two or more persons..each of them having his head thrust through a horse's collar. 1878 W. Black Goldsmith xiii. 111 The jokes..are of the poorest sort. The horse-collar is never far off. 1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. x. 207 Bawling a comic song while he grins through a horse-collar. Compounds horsecollar-maker n. ΚΠ 1580 Faversham Reg. (MS.) Richard Cookes, a horse~kollermaker. 1897 Daily News 30 Apr. 3/5 A horse-collar maker, an Army Reserve man. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1440 |
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