| 单词 | plantation dog |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplantation dog plantation dog n. ΚΠ 1712 J. Norris Profitable Advice for Rich & Poor 53 We esteem not Puddings good, in the Guts of Hogs, We with such Offal feed Plantation Dogs; And Pease, we know, are good to feed fat Swine; Strong Beer, and Toast, to make Men drunk betime. 1853 H. B. Stowe Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin 186/1 The leaders of the community..keep this blind, furious monster of the mob, very much as an overseer keeps plantation-dogs, as creatures to be set on to any man or thing whom they may choose to have put down. 1922 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 7 108 Not long after I left Ponce de Leon spring I heard the plantation dogs coming after me. 1972 Foxfire Bk. 252 Traditionally the mountain people kept several different kinds of dogs around their houses. Many had at least one ‘plantation dog’ whose whole job was to keep the hogs and cows out of the corn [maize]. < as lemmas |
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