| 单词 | mountain boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmountain boy mountain boy n. (a) U.S. History a member of a military company from a mountainous area, in earlier use esp. from Vermont (cf. Green Mountain State n. at green adj. and n.1 Compounds 1d(a)); (b) gen. a boy or man from a mountainous area. ΚΠ 1772 in Vermont Hist. Soc. Coll. (1870) 1 6 Captain Warner's company of Green Mountain Boys..fired three volleys of small arms.] 1777 A. Hamilton Let. 2 Nov. in Papers (1961) I. 349 Nixon's brigades, & Col. Warner's mountain boys. 1800 W. Wordsworth in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads II. 39 Though he was not of a timid nature, Yet still the spirit of a mountain boy In him was somewhat check'd. 1815 Niles' Reg. 8 39/2 At the most gloomy period of the war, these mountain boys of Pennsylvania..organized themselves into a company. 1888 Cent. Mag. Oct. 897/2 Zeke..his hat in one hand, and the other, for want of a coat, thrust into his half-open shirt-front—a bare-footed mountain boy. 1918 W. Cather My Ántonia i. i. 3 I travelled in the care of a mountain boy..one of the ‘hands’ on my father's old farm. 1993 Speculum 68 480 Certainly mountain boys left their families to become professional shepherds. < as lemmas |
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