| 单词 | pig-hunting expedition |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspig-hunting expedition The action or practice of hunting wild pigs; a wild pig hunt. Also attributive, as pig-hunting expedition, etc.In quot. 1631 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > [noun] > pigs pig hunting1631 boar-hunting1770 pig-hunt1793 pig-sticking1833 boar-hunt1843 pig-stick1906 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre iii. ii. 34 in Wks. II These are Banbury-bloods, o' the sincere stud, come a pigge-hunting. ?1798 Catal. Prints John Barnard No. 281 Pig-hunting, by Winstanley. 1837 G. Hempleman Piraki Log (1911) 16 Nov. 60 The Natives and one Man started a Pig hunting the remainder employed grass cutting. 1880 J. C. Crawford Recoll. Trav. N.Z. & Austral. 163 Just below Puketapu we met a canoe laden with dogs going on a pig-hunting expedition. a1948 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs (1951) x. 262 In 1878..one of the shepherds, took a pig-hunting contract. 1997 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 38 250 Colonial regulations handicapped pig hunting in several ways. < as lemmas |
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