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单词 peckman
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peckmann.

Origin: Apparently foprmed within English, by compounding. Etymons: an element of uncertain origin, man n.1
Etymology: < a first element of uncertain origin + man n.1The first element is perhaps pack n.1, short for packhorse n. (compare besage-man at besage n., earlier sumpter man n. at sumpter n. Compounds 2, and later packhorse man n. at packhorse n. and adj. Compounds). Alternatively, the first element may be peck n.1, with reference to the rationing of oats (as fodder for horses).
Obsolete. rare.
Perhaps: an officer of the royal stables.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > keeper or manager > official of household
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1526 Eltham Ordinances in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 201 The six sumpter men and one Besage man, The Peckman, the King's Foole.
1684 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia: 1st Pt. (ed. 15) i. 185 A Yeoman Peckman, a Yeoman Bitmaker.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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