单词 | manada |
释义 | manadan. U.S. regional (chiefly south-western). A herd of horses, usually breeding mares. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun] > drove or herd of standc1560 caballada1841 cavayard1851 manada1863 1863 J. S. Hittell Resources Calif. 223 More than half of the brood-mares of the state are wild Spanish... They are in bands called manadas. 1873 C. Nordhoff Calif. 244 I do not want that mañada of horse on the hill yonder. 1885 Overland Monthly July 91 We ran down the rocky slope to the pasture-field, drove the manada of horses and colts to the corral, selected our mounts [etc.]. 1892 Dial. Notes 1 191 Manáda, a flock, a herd. In Spain it usually means a flock of sheep. In Texas it is applied specifically to a small drove of horses, about a score. 1892 Dial. Notes 1 249 Manada,..the word is more specifically applied to mares. 1993 C. McCarthy All Pretty Horses (U.K. ed.) ii. 126 In the days to follow the hacendado would come up to the corral where they'd shaped the manada and he and John Grady would walk among the mares. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1863 |
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