| 单词 | knacker's yard |
| 释义 | > as lemmasknacker's yard a. One whose trade it is to buy worn out, diseased, or useless horses, and slaughter them for their hides and hoofs, and for making dog's-meat, etc.; a horse-slaughterer. knacker's yard: Also transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killer of animals > [noun] slaughterman1389 dog-killer1592 slaughterer1648 buffer1699 pork butcher1763 knacker1812 serpenticide1817 vulpicide1826 piggicide1837 canicide1852 ursicidea1861 birdicide1866 insecticide1866 horse-knacker1937 pigeoneer1944 piscicide1953 the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > [noun] > slaughter-house > horse knacker's yard1812 knackery1864 1812 Sporting Mag. 39 209 He was a knacker [note, A purchaser of worn-up horses]. 1824 Monthly Mag. LVII. 109 The nackers' and catgut-makers' yards. 1875 A. Helps Social Pressure ii. 9 Four or five hundred horses are carried to the knacker's yard each week in London. 1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 128 Knacker's yard, the shipbreaker's yard. 1966 ‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 59 Knacker's yard: said of a place that looks a complete mess. 1967 T. Gunn Touch 42 The graveyard is the sea... They have all come who sought distinction hard To this universal knacker's yard. < as lemmas |
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