| 单词 | recruit horse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrecruit horse recruit horse n. Now rare. ΚΠ 1648 T. Fairfax Petition from Regiments of Army 5 Money for providing Armes for the Horse and Foot, Recruit Horses, Ammunition for the Army and Garrisons.., and other incident Charges. a1675 B. Whitelocke Memorials Eng. Affairs (1682) anno 1645 160/1 Col. Pye and Col. Sheffeild came with their own Regiments, and 700 recruit horse to Sherburn. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Recruit horses are the horses brought up for compleating the regiments of horse or dragoons every year. 1827 Oriental Herald & Jrnl. Gen. Lit. Feb. 226 The expedient was hit upon to send all the recruit horses to Simon's Town to eat up the young Major's forage. 1911 Cent. Mag. Nov. 76/2 It means the same thing to every horse in the cavalry, and it is the first thing a recruit horse learns, for it calls to grateful grooming, water, and feed. It was [the] stable call. < as lemmas |
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