| 单词 | livery punk |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslivery punk d. Of a horse: kept at livery or for hire, as livery horse, livery nag, etc.; also applied (chiefly U.S.) to horse-drawn and other vehicles available for hire, as livery buggy, livery rig (see also livery cab n., livery car n. at Compounds 2), and in extended use, as †livery friend, †livery mistress, †livery punk, etc. ΚΠ 1623 P. Massinger Duke of Millaine iv. ii. sig. Iv He, that at euerie stage keeps liuerie Mistresses. 1630 P. Massinger Renegado iii. ii. sig. F3v His ships, his goods, his liuery-puncks confiscate. a1637 B. Jonson Timber 1091 in Wks. (1640) III They have Livery-friends, friends of the dish, and of the Spit. 1679 tr. T. A. d'Aubigné Hell Illuminated 51 The King..inform'd him touching Master—who to cause him to restore a Livery Horse, fail'd in his bargain. 1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 901 Wouldst thou with a Gothic hand Pull down the schools..Or throw them up to liv'ry-nags and grooms? View more context for this quotation 1838 H. Colman 1st Rep. Agric. Mass. (Mass. Agric. Surv.) 17 The number of stage and livery horses kept in the county cannot fall short of one thousand,..who depend on the purchase of hay. 1851 B. H. Hall Coll. College Words 277 The two appeared in a handsome livery buggy, paid for, we suppose, by the State of Massachusetts. 1865 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 301 Putting Mr. C. to the cost of a livery-horse. 1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy xiii. 81 Long before we reached the Mulberry, a livery rig came down the trail to meet us. 1936 E. G. Barnard Rider Cherokee Strip 210 They met a traveling man who was driving a good livery team to a buckboard. 1942 Amer. Jrnl. Econ. & Sociol. 1 404 One can buy the use of goods, e.g., a threshing machine, a livery horse, an evening or fancy dress. 2001 D. Nevin Treason viii. 135 At Boston he rented a livery horse, but riding to Quincy he let the horse slow to a walk. < as lemmas |
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