单词 | hounce |
释义 | houncen. eastern dialect. An ornament on the collar of a horse. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > ornaments shomea1310 wamplate1508 hounce1565 ear bow1795 rosette1822 phalera1886 greening1895 horse brass1911 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis ii. f. 2v The Chrysolites and Gemmes That stood vppon the Collars, Trace, and hownces in their hemmes. 1691 J. Ray S. & E. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 89 Hounces,..that part of the Furniture of a Cart-horse, which lies spread upon his Collar. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Hounce, the ornament of red and yellow worsted spread over the collars of horses in a team. a1855 W. T. Spurdens Forby's Vocab. E. Anglia (1858) III. 24 Houncings, housings; phaleræ. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.1565 |
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