| 单词 | lambing fold |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslambing fold The parturition or yeaning of lambs; (of a lamb) birth, time of birth. Also attributive, as lambing fold, lambing season, lambing time. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > lambing season lambing time1573 lambing season1861 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > female > giving birth lambing1573 yeaning1574 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 34 Now therfore thine eawe, vpon lamming so neere: desireth in pasture, that all may be cleere. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xxv. 156 When the ewe is in lambing. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Agneler At lambing time we find what Ewes were full. 1797 Monthly Mag. 3 486 A premium of five guineas to the owner of the best South-down wether, to be two years old last lambing-time. 1813 Examiner 3 May 279/2 The lambing has been..successful. 1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. 141 The tithes..were due three times a year,—at the lambing season, at harvest-time, and at Martinmas. 1881 A. C. Grant Bush-life in Queensland (1882) xxxii. 328 Stone had also done very well; his lambings had been good. 1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 79 Admirable lambing folds can be constructed very readily..with no other materials than wattled hurdles and straw. < as lemmas |
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