| 单词 | old english black |
| 释义 | > as lemmasOld English black b. A former breed or variety of heavy draught horse developed in England, occurring in various colours, and ancestral to the Shire and the Clydesdale. More fully Old English black. Now historical. ΚΠ 1796 J. Lawrence Philos. & Pract. Treat. Horses I. vi. 295 The breeds of cart-horses, most in fashion upon our island, at present, are the heavy blacks of the Midland counties, the Suffolk punches, and those of Clydesdale in Northern Britain. 1823 Farmers Mag. Feb. 50 The Cleveland Bay..[is] a distinct race from the English blood horse, and equally distinct from the black or cart breed of the country. 1833 tr. C. Malte-Brun Universal Geogr. IX. 171 The English draught horses are held in great and merited repute; the three best sorts are the Cleveland bay, the Suffolk punch, and the Old English black or Lincolnshire cart horse. 1883 R. Moreton On Horse-breaking (ed. 2) 81 The Lincolnshire dray-horse is..the produce of a cross between the old English black and the Flemish horse. 1983 V. Russell Heavy Horses of World 98/1 The breeding of the best of the 'Blacks' was centred on the Fens and adjoining areas such as Leicestershire and Staffordshire, and extending into Derbyshire. < as lemmas |
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