| 单词 | moose pasture |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmoose pasture moose pasture n. Canadian colloquial (a) a mining claim of little or no value; (b) land which is overgrown or swampy (and hence useful only to moose). ΚΠ 1899 H. Garland Trail of Goldseekers xxii. 224 No, Sir, I wouldn't give a hundred dollars for the whole damn moose pasture. 1901 H. J. Woodside in North (1964) Nov.–Dec. 6/1 Some miners..started in to stake Eldorado branch, up to that time ‘Reserved as a moose pasture,’ as a wag put it. 1965 F. Symington Tuktu 17 The timberland is interspersed with..willow-and-aldergrown ‘moose pasture’. 1975 E. Iglauer Denison's Ice Road iii. 83 They found somebody who staked a moose pasture—land not known to have anything on it but moose at the time of staking. 1988 B. Cooper Alexander Kennedy Isbister ix. 249 The area..was described as muskeg and moose pasture, bottomless morass, incapable of being drained. < as lemmas |
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