单词 | out-winterer |
释义 | † out-winterern. Obsolete. rare. An animal kept out in the open during the winter. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > livestock > member of livestock > that's wintered in specific place > that's not housed at night or in winter out-winterer1783 outler1786 1783 Whitehall Evening-post 1–4 Mar. The first time I understood that cattle would eat the tops of firs, was by observing our out-winterers, which are turned into the woods, eat the whole of the green tops of the fir trees, blown down by the storms. 1803 J. Sinclair in A. Hunter et al. Georgical Ess. (new ed.) IV. xvii. 351 Out-winterers, as they are called, or cattle kept out all winter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。