| 单词 | housing-cloth |
| 释义 | > as lemmashousing-cloth housing-cloth n. [in later use the first element was perhaps sometimes apprehended as housing n.1] now rare (historical in later use) a cloth or rug used to cover a horse; a housing (sense 2a). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > trappings, housing, or caparison steed shrouda1300 coverturec1300 trap13.. horse-house1316 attiringa1375 trapping1398 trappera1400 saddlecloth1415 house1463 foot-cloth1480 summock1506 reparelling1513 base1548 furniture1553 coperture1555 housing-cloth1569 caparison1602 footmantlec1610 bear gear1613 horse-furniture1613 bearing gear1616 housing1698 pad-cloth1795 rumbler1849 1569 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 219 In his owen stable..hackney sadles with stiripes..brest garthes..iiij housing clothes. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 369 Lay a howsing cloath vpon the same to keepe his backe as warme as may be. 1735 Sportsman's Dict. I. at Groom The next thing requisite to a groom is neatness, as to keeping his stable clean swept and in order; saddles, housing cloths, stirrups, leathers and girths clean. 1869 W. Gilbert Lucrezia Borgia I. v. 186 One of the mules had a housing-cloth of mulberry velvet ornamented with silver embroidery. 1913 F. S. Delmer tr. G. Frenssen Jörn Uhl (new ed.) xiv. 215 Another horse that is galloping riderless;..Jorn Uhl helps him to catch it; and in a moment he is sitting on the red housing-cloth. < as lemmas |
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