kempern.

Etymology: < kemp v. + -er suffix¹; compare Middle Dutch kemper, Middle High German kempfer, German kämpfer, Danish kæmper.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈkemper.

Scottish or archaic.

a. Scottish. One who kemps or strives for victory, esp. in reaping.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > contest at reaping > competitor

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kempera1598

a1598 D. Fergusson Sc. Prov. (1641) sig. A3^v All the corne in the countrey, is not shorne by kempers.

1776 C. Keith Farmer's Ha' in R. Chambers Misc. Pop. Scottish Poems (1862) 28 The lasses..Are sittin at their spinnin-wheels, And weel ilk blythsome kemper dreels.

1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 401/1 Helping to give a hot brow to this bevy of notable kempers.

b. archaic. = kemp n.¹

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > [noun] > prizefighter or professional fighter

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kemper1891

1891 R. W. Dixon Hist. Church Eng. IV. 469 The spirit of the northern kempers.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	kemper
释义	kempern. Etymology: < kemp v. + -er suffix¹; compare Middle Dutch kemper, Middle High German kempfer, German kämpfer, Danish kæmper.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈkemper. Scottish or archaic. a. Scottish. One who kemps or strives for victory, esp. in reaping. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > contest at reaping > competitor kemp1573 kempera1598 a1598 D. Fergusson Sc. Prov. (1641) sig. A3^v All the corne in the countrey, is not shorne by kempers. 1776 C. Keith Farmer's Ha' in R. Chambers Misc. Pop. Scottish Poems (1862) 28 The lasses..Are sittin at their spinnin-wheels, And weel ilk blythsome kemper dreels. 1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 401/1 Helping to give a hot brow to this bevy of notable kempers. b. archaic. = kemp n.¹ ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > [noun] > prizefighter or professional fighter kempa700 cockera1275 prizera1616 prizefighter1682 kempery-mana1765 kempy1821 kemper1891 1891 R. W. Dixon Hist. Church Eng. IV. 469 The spirit of the northern kempers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.a1598
随便看	to rack one's memory to rack one's wit to rack out to rack up to racket away to racket it to raddle a person's bones to raddle bones to rag on to rag out to rag the puck to rage out to rail in to rail off to rain by planets to rain cats and dogs to rain in to rain in planets to rain itself out to rain off to rain on a person's parade to rain out to rain pitchforks to raise a dust to raise a finger