| 单词 | rabbit-warren |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrabbit-warren a. spec. A piece of land appropriated to the breeding of rabbits (formerly also of hares). More fully rabbit-warren (see rabbit n.1 Compounds 1a), coney warren n., hare-warren n.Now usually a piece of uncultivated ground on which rabbits breed wild in burrows. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > gamekeeping > [noun] > place where rabbits/hares kept clapperc1400 warrena1425 hare-warren1647 rabbit warren1766 rabbitry1838 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Oryctolagus (rabbit) > burrow or warren clapperc1400 cunnigar1424 warrena1425 coneygarth1429 coney-close?1472 coney hole?c1475 berry1486 coney holda1500 coney-clapper1530 coney yard1532 coneyry1570 coney burrow1575 coney gratec1580 coney-gat1591 coney green1599 coney warren1616 coney ground1617 rabbit hole1667 stop1669 rabbit burrow1723 stock1736 rabbit warren1766 stab1838 warrener1864 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > rabbit pasture warrena1425 a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) i Whan hares be ygete with the kynde of a conynge, as somme ben in the warrayntes [Bodl. MS. wareynes], the houndes lust nor sentith hem nought so wele. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xlviii These children..entred the warrayn of a Lord of Fraunce..& there chased & shotte at Conyes for theyr disport. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Lagotrophia, a warren or parke of hares. 1544 R. Tracy Supplycacion to Kynge Henry VIII sig. Cvjv Warrens swarminge full of conyes. 1566 Act 8 Eliz. c. 15 §5 In any Parke Warren or Grounde employed to the mayntenaunce of any game of Conyes. 1589 Voy. Sir F. Drake in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. sig. Mmm8 We found the whole Countrey to bee a warren of a strange kinde of Connies. 1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue iii. 114 Whether hath he any Warren of Conies, or Hares. 1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse ii. 36 Like a young Puppy in a Warren, they have a Flirt at all, and catch none. 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer ii. 17 When company comes, you are not to pop out and stare, and then run in again, like frighted rabbits in a warren. 1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. i, in Poems 66 He poach'd the Wood and on the Warren snar'd. 1850 ‘Sylvanus’ Bye-lanes & Downs iv. 51 After passing..over a warren crenelled like a cullender, and divers stubble fields. 1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 81 The land along the coast [of the Bay of Luce] is a vast warren of rabbits. < as lemmas |
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