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单词 horse-collar
释义

horse-collarn.

Forms:

α. see horse n. and collar n.

β. late Middle English horsys colere, 1700s– horse's collar.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: horse n., collar n.
Etymology: In α. forms < horse n. + collar n. In β. forms < the genitive of horse n. + collar n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhorse-collar.
The collar of a horse. to grin through a horse-collar: see quot. 1801. Hence allusively, as in quot. 1878.
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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.
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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).
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