单词 | leg-roping |
释义 | leg-ropingn. Australian and New Zealand. The practice or action of fitting a rope with a noose around the leg of an animal, esp. a cow in preparation for milking, in order to restrain or tether it; an instance of this. Cf. leg rope n. 1, leg rope v. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > droving > roping roping1849 leg-roping1876 1876 N.Z. Herald 23 Sept. 2/3 I don't either much like leg-ropes and leg-roping for the reason that cows in general object to them. 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms III. xiv. 192 Mothering the calves, bailing up, leg-roping, and all the rest of it. 1912 B. E. Baughan Brown Bread from Colonial Oven vii. 142 Much to my surprise, there was no leg-roping, and hardly any bailing-up [of the cows being milked]. 1992 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 18 June The cattle must be roped and snigged up to a bronco ramp for leg-roping, throwing and branding. 2013 S. Thorne Bonzer xviii. 242 I shut the wooden gate behind the cows... In shock, we went through the process of leg-roping. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1876 |
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