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单词 mustering
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musteringn.1

Brit. /ˈmʌst(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈməst(ə)rɪŋ/
Forms: see muster v.1 and -ing suffix1; also late Middle English mustryng, 1500s–1600s (1700s–1800s (poetic)) mustring.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: muster v.1, -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < muster v.1 + -ing suffix1.
a. The act of showing; an exhibition, an outward display. Obsolete.
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a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ii. 669 (MED) Thei..Off trewe menyng void and destitut, In mustryng outward pretende a fair visage.
b. The exercise of assembling or being gathered together; an instance of this.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > ceremonial > [noun] > muster
muster1419
wappenschawing1424
mustering1440
wappenschawa1503
rendezvous1596
assembly1917
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > assembling of people or animals
semblinga1300
assembly1413
mustering1440
assemblancec1485
routing1513
assembling1611
congregating1649
assemblationa1734
trooping1809
the mind > language > naming > [noun] > reading aloud of names
call1606
absence1753
mustering1769
bill1814
muster roll1834
call-over1863
society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [noun] > furnishing with crew > mustering crew
mustering1769
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > droving > rounding up
calling?a1425
muster1841
roundup1847
mustering1860
rounding up1876
count-muster1891
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 349 Musterynge, or gaderynge togeder of men to be schewyde, coadunacio.
a1500 (?c1440) J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep (Lansd.) 66 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 542 Withouten hors, what wer her mustrynges?
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccxlvj They commaund Scherteline..to inuade the enemies that wer in mustering vnderneth the Alpes.
1602 B. Jonson Poetaster v. iii. sig. L3 Hee's one, that hath had the Mustring, or Conuoy of a Company. View more context for this quotation
1660 T. Fuller Mixt Contempl. ii. xxix. 44 The multitude of Actors and Beholders, at the Mustering in Hide Park.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Mustering, the act of calling over a list of the whole ship's company, or any..detachment thereof, who are..summoned to answer by their names on the occasion.
1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies xxvi. 231 A general mustering of our horses took place.
1860 G. Duppa Station Diary Oct. in S. S. Crawford Sheep & Sheepmen of Canterbury (1949) v. 47 To collect stragglers for a second mustering.
1878 E. S. Elwell Boy Colonists 172 The mode of mustering adopted by Ernest was this.
1888 Sat. Rev. 8 Dec. 668 He knew..what the heavy mustering on the Opposition benches meant.
1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xviii. 172 There was the operation of mustering going on as clear and plain as if the hillside were a mile distant.
1968 K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 95 Tales told in a bush pub; tales of droving, mustering.
1988 B. Stewart Charlemagne (BNC) 18 Mustering was administered by the courts, who were frequently accused of bribery and coercion in the tally of the muster.
1990 Holiday Which? Sept. 169/1 The principle of mustering is a sensible one as it..prevents chaos round the lifeboats.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
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1588 T. Hughes Misfortunes Arthur iii. iii. 10 The mustering traines Stop vp the streetes.
1618 W. Lithgow Pilgrimes Farewell sig. E3v The Mustring-day drawne on, there came thy Glore, To see thy gallant Youthes, so rich arrayd.
1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ A mustering place, diribitorium.
1745 J. Hempstead Diary 6 May (1998) 435 The 1st & 2d Company are viewing Arms &c. mustering Day through the Colony.
1817 T. Chalmers Series Disc. Christian Revel. (1852) vi. 138 On some field of mustering competition, have monarchs met.
1841 Southern Literary Messenger 7 768/1 Who should I see..but Mr. Jim Guest himself, in..mustering jacket and trowsers, and tarpaulin hat.
1878 E. S. Elwell Boy Colonists 169 In mustering times Ernest used to set some of the huge boulders on the sides of its cliffs rolling.
1930 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs vi. 138 More stories were told of him in shearers' huts and mustering camps than of any other runholder.
1953 O. E. Middleton in C. K. Stead N.Z. Short Stories (1966) 2nd Ser. 186 See him coming in from the back country at mustering-time.
1987 Stock & Land (Melbourne) 26 Nov. 5/1 Gippsland sheep breeder and noted horseman, Alistair Irving,..was killed in a mustering accident.
C2.
mustering plant n. Australian a party of workers and equipment assembled to muster stock.
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1934 C. Sayce Comboman 217 A mustering plant! It was Jim Hendley's plant. He had been out for a fortnight, mustering horses and was taking a mob back to Kendal station for drafting.
1980 R. Ansell & R. Percy To fight Wild 123 He had been with the last mustering plant sent in to try to get some of the cattle out of the Fitzmaurice country.
mustering stick n. New Zealand a long stout stick used (originally and esp. by musterers) to help negotiate difficult terrain.
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1951 D. McLeod N.Z. High Country 24 Mustering sticks are usually nearly shoulder high and must be strong and tough and not too heavy. They are hard to get in some districts and a good one is carefully kept.
1981 M. Anderson Both Sides of River 78 Davis also gave him a stout mustering-stick and showed him how to make the best use of it when sidling across a steep face.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

musteringn.2

Forms: see muster v.2 and -ing suffix1; also late Middle English mysterynge.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: muster v.2, -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < muster v.2 + -ing suffix1.
Obsolete.
Whispering; talebearing.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > hidden or indirect meaning > [noun] > communicating indirectly
whisperingc1384
mustering1440
insinuation1532
implication1581
whistering1586
insinuating1644
implial1846
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 349 Musterynge [?a1475 Winch. Musteryng], or qwysperynge, mussitacio.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 436 Romelynge, or privy mysterynge, ruminacio, mussitacio.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

musteringadj.

Brit. /ˈmʌst(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈməst(ə)rɪŋ/
Forms: see muster v.1 and -ing suffix2.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: muster v.1, -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < muster v.1 + -ing suffix2.
That assembles or gathers together, as in battle array. Also: that calls a muster; esp. in mustering officer.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > gathering, collecting, or coming together
mustering1566
gathering1697
ingathering1887
society > armed hostility > military organization > ceremonial > [adjective] > mustering
mustering1758
1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Agamemnon sig. Ciijv Whom wt the dynt of..swerd Achilles durst not harme..Nor yet the musteryng Thracian host.
1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. A4 Like the mustering breath of Æolus, That ouerturnes the pines of Libanon.
1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells iv. 201 The mustring Clouds obscure from vs the Sun.
1697 R. Blackmore King Arthur i. 2 The Night..to chase the Light away Drew out her must'ring Shades in black Array.
1758 J. Blake Plan Marine Syst. 24 Let each be signed by the aforesaid mustering-officer.
1789 R. Burns Let. 9 Dec. (2001) I. 454 The Great Man here..is a flaming Zealot.—Kick'd out before the astonished indignation of his deserted Master, and despised I suppose by the Party who took him in to be a mustering faggot at the mysterious orgies of their midnight iniquities.
1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. xi. 211 Mustering storm-clouds blue with rain.
1882 A. C. Swinburne Trist. Lyonesse 105 Blasts that ravin, waves that break, All round and all below their mustering wings.
1897 ‘P. Warung’ Tales Old Regime 110 So that his attitude should not appear strange to the mustering officer.
1979 Mil. Affairs 43 187 He..served out the remainder of the Civil War as a recruiter and mustering officer at Louisville.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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